Abandoning MS-13 informants’ protections isn’t keeping U.S. safer

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The Trump administration has, in what I believe is an amazing show of short-sightedness, weakened the Justice Department’s ability to keep our citizens safer.

The Washington Post published a story Oct. 19 detailing how Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised to return nine MS-13 gang members, who were under U.S. government protection, to the El Salvador government of President Nayib Bukele. This is an amazing betrayal of U.S. principles. The fact that Attorney General Pam Bondi agreed to this speaks volumes about her as well.

The story quoted Douglas Farah, a U.S. contractor who worked with federal officials to investigate and help dismantle the MS-13 gang: “The deal is a deep betrayal of U.S. law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members.”

Our Justice Department, as a matter of policy, uses high-level informants to acquire sensitive information that we can then turn into actionable intelligence to keep Americans safer. Who will be forthcoming with information for us now? We have shown that our word is worthless, thanks to Rubio, Bondi and Donald Trump’s “Justice” Department.

The next time you see images of masked agents running through the streets, grabbing civilians and throwing them into unmarked vans, ask yourself, “What have we become?”

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