""The system before was always [tracking] for passport fraud, visa fraud, or internal investigation for malfeasance, misfeasance, or for human trafficking," they say. "But this Title 8, it is veering off from our authority, from our training.""
"If DSS did work with DHS, it would be because "there's a nexus in our investigations," the former agent says."
""We know what to do for an arrest warrant, all the steps we take and all that," they say. "We don't do administrative warrants, we do criminal warrants.""
DSS historically logged investigations for passport fraud, visa fraud, internal malfeasance, misfeasance, and human trafficking. Title 8 immigration enforcement has been added as a logging category, prompting concern that immigration enforcement exceeds DSS authority and training. U.S.-based DSS agents previously lacked authority to carry out immigration enforcement and only worked with DHS when investigations showed a nexus. DSS agents do not have experience executing administrative warrants used to arrest people for immigration violations and traditionally execute criminal arrest warrants. Recent reporting indicates DSS officers participated in federal actions in Washington, DC, including at least one arrest. The State Department proposed an Office of Remigration and issued broad termination notices.
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