The Justice Department’s newly confirmed second-in-command said US Attorney’s offices near the nation’s borders are allowed to hire more prosecutors for criminal cases related to immigration, trafficking, and cartels, despite a federal hiring freeze.
The department will provide funding for new hires at offices along the northern, southwest, and southern maritime borders, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a Thursday memo sent to agency employees, and viewed by Bloomberg Law.
Prosecutors “must commit to investigations and prosecutions targeting all of the insidious results of the four-year invasion of illegal immigration that we are now working to repel,” Blanche wrote. ...
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