A Senate Republican, citing whistleblowers, said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was reassigning personnel from public safety areas to do “menial” tasks coping with illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border
In a Nov. 29 Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Richard Cline, the Director of the Federal Protective Service (FPS) under DHS, regarding the reassignment of FPS officers to the southern border amid the persistent surge in illegal immigration.
