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Legal and civil-rights concerns raised as witnesses describe aggressive interior enforcement and novel detention uses
Summary
Witnesses and Democratic members warned that the new administration’s interior enforcement moves, including reassigning federal agents, using Guantanamo Bay to house migrants and invoking the Alien Enemies Act to send detainees abroad, carry due-process and resource-diversion risks.
Multiple witnesses and Democratic members said the Trump administration's early enforcement actions raise procedural and resource-allocation concerns.
Aaron Reichlin Melnick of the American Immigration Council said the current administration has “reassigned thousands of federal law enforcement officers away from their normal duties to instead carry out low level civil immigration enforcement arrests and prosecutions,” and warned that those personnel moves have diverted…
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