Florida State Guard personnel are replacing the 200 Marines deployed in July with “management, administrative, logistics and logistics” duties at ice facilities.
More National Guards Leave Los Angeles
The Pentagon recalls the National Guard troops of about 1,300 from Los Angeles, with only a few hundred remaining following the anti-ice protests in June.
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- The 1,700-person National Guard will help handle detainees in more than 12 states.
- Security guard duties include wiping DNA, fingerprinting and personal transport.
WASHINGTON – Over dozens of red state immigration enforcement agents will deploy to help DNA swabs, fingerprints and transport detainees transport as part of a plan for the Republican governor to greenlight to take over some of the 1,700 military forces in the ice office.
On July 25, the Pentagon announced that a 1,700 National Guard (an additional 1,200 already deployed 500 units) would “work to address case management, transportation, logistics support and clergy support in the processing of ice arrests both inside and outside the processing.
Some obligations include taking DNA swabs, photographs and fingerprints of people held at ice facilities, according to defense officials who are speaking on condition of anonymity.
The security forces have already begun arriving at the ice office.
Florida State Guard spokesman William Manley said 25 of the nine ice offices that “built” nine ice offices across the state arrived on August 5th.
“We expect our security guards to carry out administrative/official tasks, fingerprints, DNA swabing, photography and transportation support,” Manly said.
Florida State Guard officials will replace the 200 Marines deployed in early July to take on “administrative, administrative, logistics and logistics” duties at state ice facilities, according to a statement from the U.S. Northern Command.
The National Guard Forces can play similar roles in the ice office in 20 additional states with Republican governors, including Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas, Maxwell, Miqua Maxwell, and the National Guard Boob Spokespean.
South Carolina has been requested by Louisiana, with 40 and 70 troops, according to a spokesman for the state’s National Guard Department.
The Trump administration deployed 4,000 National Guard and hundreds of Marines to quell protests over a widespread immigrant attack in Los Angeles. The majority — over 3,000 — have been recalled.
The force tapped by the Red Governor to fill the Ice Office
Unlike these troops, security guards currently being tapped to help with ice stops will be deployed under the orders of two dozen state Republican governors. In other words, they are not subject to legal bans from federal forces carrying out law enforcement functions.
Joseph Nun, a lawyer for the Brennan Centre’s Freedom and National Security Program, said tapping the military to play an integrated role in handling ice arrests remains a source of concern.
“If we deploy our domestic troops to help enforce immigration, we are separating our personnel resources and attention from our core national security responsibilities,” Nun said. This includes the “traditional” responsibilities of security guards, such as disaster relief and response, he added.
Integrating the troops into internal law enforcement operations far from border risks makes them “a presence in the national ice offices,” he said.
It opened up the possibility of “a seemingly permanent presence of the military at the US Mexican border… moving inside the country,” he said.
