“. . . , which is responsible for safely moving nuclear weapons and components, according to seven people with knowledge of the delays.”

“That has delayed classes for new recruits and experienced officers from the Secret Service, the Army Criminal Investigative Division, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Energy Department’s Office of Secure Transportation . . .”

“The federal government’s main law enforcement training academy has suspended many of its programs for nonimmigration agents for the rest of the year, aiming to make room for the thousands of new deportation officers being hired by ICE.”

“Local law enforcement authorities are now receiving far fewer intelligence reports than they normally would, according to people familiar with the reports. One official said the decline in information sharing has amounted to ‘chipping away at everything that’s been built since Sept. 11.’”

“Since the immigration crackdown, cases where officials worked to seize tankers loaded with Iranian oil and bank accounts where profits are stored have languished for months, with agents too busy on immigration duty to interview sources or draft seizure affidavits.”

“Engineers who work on child safety issues at Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies told The Times that there had been a noticeable drop in follow-up from federal officials regarding the materials they had flagged.”

“From February through April of this year, H.S.I. agents nationwide worked the fewest hours on child exploitation that they have during that period in more than a decade, according to The Times’s data analysis.”

“H.S.I. teams that investigate sex crimes against children in cities including Newark and Los Angeles have had significant numbers of special agents dragooned into immigration work, according to people with knowledge of the changes.l

Have you been paying any attention to the Atlantic? You think they’re just starting to notice?

Maybe you’re getting worn down by all Trump’s abuses? That’s the point. To wear you down. So you don’t care anymore and are willing to just let it all go.

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“That’s how authoritarianism works; you start with the vulnerable, and once the machine is built, it never stops grinding.

“This is a warning. A flashing red siren. We are no longer at the stage of ‘it can’t happen here.’ It is happening here.”

“So the question is: how long before Americans stop pretending this is someone else’s problem? How long before people realize that when Trump comes for the immigrant, he sets the precedent for coming for the journalist, the activist, the protester, the political opponent?”