Federal investigators tasked with hunting child sexual predators and other serious criminals have reportedly been diverted into rounding up undocumented immigrants as part of Donald Trump’s quest to turbocharge deportations.
The Department of Homeland Security has reassigned thousands of specialized federal agents to immigration dragnets, dramatically slowing investigations into child exploitation and sex trafficking, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
Agents are being pulled off high-priority criminal investigations, including national security threats, and sent on deportation missions, the newspaper reports.
Hany Farid, 58, a computer scientist who helped develop industry-standard tools to detect child abuse imagery, told the Times, “It’s heartbreaking.
“You can’

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