Trump's 'National Police' Future: Wildlife Cops Now Border Patrol?
The Intercept reports Trump eyes ICE's 287(g) partnerships—agreements currently deputizing local cops, sometimes even wildlife commissions, to enforce federal immigration law—as a blueprint for a broader 'national police force.' (Wildlife commissions! Because who better to track human beings than those trained to tag elk?) This 'local' federalization is nothing new; it's a quiet, insidious
expansion of state control, normalizing federal overreach under the guise of 'cooperation' with agencies whose primary purpose is ostensibly far removed from internal security. We’re told this is about 'border security,' but watch closely as environmental protection and public safety agencies are quietly conscripted into a domestic surveillance apparatus. It’s a classic bait-and-switch: first, you
come for the 'illegals,' then you expand the net to anyone deemed a threat. How long before your local park ranger is asking for your papers, all in the name of 'public safety'?