Internal security secretary Kristi Noem, announced on Sunday of the new management of the agency responsible for the application of immigration when she also undertook to pass lies detection on employees to identify that which can leak information on media operations.
“The authorities that I have under the Ministry of Internal Security are wide and extended and I plan to use each of them to ensure that we follow the law, that we follow the procedures in place to ensure the safety of people and that we assure ourselves that we follow what we President Trump A promised, “said Noem to CBS” Face The Nation “.
Although these polygraphic examinations are generally not eligible in legal proceedings, they are frequently used by federal law enforcement agencies and for national security authorizations.
“The Department of Internal Security is a national security agency,” said DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, in a statement. “We can, should, and will be the polygraphic staff.”
Officials of the White House have already expressed their frustration in the face of the pace of deportations, blame him in part on recent leaks revealing the cities where the authorities planned to carry out operations.
AP correspondent, Julie Walker, reports the lies detection tests for government employees and the management of the new ice.
NOEM’s announcement of two new leadership appointments within American immigration and customs application occurs less than two months in the Trump administration and demonstrates the importance that the administration gives to the realization of the president’s expulsion program.
Todd Lyons, the former deputy director of field operations in the agency’s application branch, will serve as an acting director of the ice. Madison Sheahan, secretary of the department of fauna and fisheries of Louisiana and the former assistant of Noem when she was governor of southern Dakota, was operated to be the assistant director of the agency.
Leadership changes occur after Ice’s acting director was Reassigned February 21. Two other tops immigration application The officials were reassigned on February 11. Immigration arrests.
Noem too Announced Friday that the agency has identified and planned to continue two “information leaks”.
On Sunday, she said that these two people “disclosed our implementing operations that we had planned and that we were going to carry out in several cities and presentation of vulnerabilities”. She said they could face up to 10 years in federal prison.
