Homeland Security reassigns ‘hundreds’ of CISA cyber staffers to support Trump’s deportation crackdown

According to the news report, hundreds of employees across the United States Homeland Security Department are re -appointing hundreds of employees to assist in the administration’s broad migration crackdown and dismiss the person who refuses to obey.

Blomberg On Wednesday, the department has shifted staff from the US Cybercquirement Agency CISA, many of whom focus on issuing cyber guidances to protect critical infrastructure from the US government and cyber threats, Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICEs) and Customs (ICE) and Border Protection (ICE).

Both blomberg and Nextogov Reportedly, many of the affected CISA workers are in the agency’s capacity building unit, which helps to improve the cyberquacy posture of federal agencies, as well as the stakeholder engagement department, a team that leads the partnership with CISA’s international organization and agency.

Other CISA workers have been transferred to the Federal Protective Service, a police unit that works with the ICE and CBP related to the publication according to publication.

The Trump administration has made a major policy to the immigration enforcement enforcement since taking charge in January with lawmakers in July Authorization of $ 150 billion in taxpayers’ funds To support the deportation by ice. Most funds will go towards the use of technology, From spyware to data broker and position data fromTo track millions of people across the United States.

Re -appointment news comes at a time when the United States faces a wave of hack aimed at the private industry and the federal government.

In recent weeks, an English -speaking criminal gang has stolen data from dozens of companies that store customers’ information in the salesforce database; Russian hacker Use Federal Court System Steal Document from the System; And a sharepoint bug hackers at the beginning of this year Violation of several US federal categoriesThe US government is responsible for maintaining the reserve protection of nuclear weapons.

In an emailed statement, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McCalflin told TechCrunch that the agency “regularly confirm all the main mission regions that the missions are aligned to fill the priorities,” and the media report did not argue that hundreds of employees would be re -appointed.

“Due to this rebuilding, DHS is ridiculous to handle the threat to our nation because of this rebuilding.” But do not say Mculphlin, when asked by TechCrunch, if the re -appointed CISA’s role is backfield or zero.