The Trump administration has done a tremendous job of staffing its brutal crackdown on immigrants. But it turns out that reassigning everyone to that effort means that the Department of Homeland Security is giving short shrift to fighting actual crime. But hey, at least the government is keeping us safe from tamale vendors and day laborers, right?

The New York Times obtained an internal report from Homeland Security Investigations, the division of DHS that is supposed to be focused on conducting federal criminal investigations. Here’s HSI itself explaining its mission:

HSI conducts federal criminal investigations into the illegal movement of people, goods, money, contraband, weapons and sensitive technology into, out of and through the United States. HSI’s investigations are wide ranging

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