From February, many news Reports He claimed that a significant number of agents in investigations on internal security (HSI) – an investigation wing of the Internal Security Department, which focuses on international crimes, such as the utilize of children, trafficking in human beings and drug cartels – was drawn from matters related to the utilize of children and re -assigned to enforce and immigration.
US Senator Ron Promote called on Tuesday DHS inspector Joseph Cuffari to “immediately” investigate the truth and scope of these HSI reports in a letter made available only to Wired. General Inspector Cuffari has authority Conducting audits or investigations regarding all activities or operations at DHS.
“Instead of closing rapists, predators of children and other brutal criminals, [US president Donald] It seems that Trump transforms investigators to refer to chefs, agricultural employees and students, “says the spent in the letter.” Congress and the American nation do not tolerate Trump’s administration ignoring the ongoing sexual abuse of sensitive children. Therefore, we encourage you to immediately examine these disturbing reports. “
The public told Wired in a written statement that “there is no excuse for the distracting of investigators from the most hideous matters regarding the exploitation of children”, adding that “nothing should be a higher priority than protecting children in danger.”
Wired contacted several American organizations of childcare and spokesperson to convey a comment to this article, but they did not answer or refuse to comment on the album. An official from one of those organizations who asked for anonymity claimed that their organization could not convey a commentary to this story because of the fear of the revenge of Trump’s administration.
In February USA today reported that “the whole division of investigations” in HSI would focus primarily on arrests and immigration deportations, as opposed to its typical scope of work. Then Reuters in March He informed that HSI agents were actively “transferred” from the matters that they worked on the utilize of children, money laundering, drug trafficking and tax fraud. Then they were asked to enforce immigration law. At that time, the democratic senator Dick Durbin said the sale that this change is “prodigal, incorrect redirection of resources”, which “made America less safe.”
Atlantic Reported in July That the HSI veteran said that the unit suspended solemn criminal investigations, and sometimes he decides not to take up fresh cases – in this case of drugs, cases of human trafficking and the utilize of children – in order to provide agents of routine raids on immigration enforcement.
The reported change of HSI priorities will occur after the National Center for Missing and the utilize of children (NCMEC) stated that he had received 20.5 million tips suspicious sexual abuse of a child in 2024.
The risk for children covering materials for abuse generated by AI-where is also the HSI-domain-can also reach a crisis level. NCMEC was obtained in 2024 About 67,000 tips About the suspected material of abuse generated by AI-Woś by 1325 percent from 2023, when he received 4,700 these tips.