Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push
Hundreds of staffers with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have been shuffled to agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would dismiss anyone who refuses to go along, according to current and former DHS employees.
Compulsory reassignments have gone in recent weeks to workers within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, who had focused on issuing alerts about threats against US agencies and critical infrastructure, current and former employees said. They described the orders on condition of anonymity over fears of retaliation.