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Sep 16, 2025 Kash Patel diverted FBI agents from domestic terrorism to immigration enforcement Tier 1 · Primary Information, Memory and Manipulation
Redirecting counterterrorism capacity degraded federal ability to detect extremist violence, a core national security function.
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- FBI agents diverted from domestic terrorism investigations to immigration enforcement — Approximately 2,840 FBI agents out of 13,800 have been diverted to immigration enforcement work at the direction of FBI Director Kash Patel. The impacts have been severe: nearly every agent on Baltimore's domestic terrorism squad was reassigned full-time to immigration enforcement, forcing them to abandon investigations of networks targeting and exploiting children online. Former FBI officials warned that the diversion leaves extremist movements with greater latitude to operate.
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Week 35 – 2025-09-13–2025-09-19
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