1. United States
2. Pa.
3. Letter

I am writing as your constituent to express deep concern about recent reports that the Department of Homeland Security is reassigning large numbers of its law enforcement agents — including from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) — away from investigations into child exploitation, sex trafficking, and other serious crimes, and instead directing them toward a mass deportation campaign. This is alarming for several reasons: 1 Protecting Children Should Be a Top Priority
Agents who specialize in investigating child predators, online exploitation, and sex trafficking are not interchangeable with immigration enforcement. The diversion of these specialists puts vulnerable children at greater risk. 2 Undermining Serious Criminal Investigations
By reassigning agents, DHS is weakening its capacity to investigate high-level and transnational crimes — including human trafficking, drug cartels, cyber-crime, and other national security risks. 3 Politicization of Law Enforcement Priorities
This shift suggests that mass deportation — rather than combating violent crime, trafficking, and exploitation — has become the administration’s dominant priority, even if that comes at the cost of public safety. 4 Lack of Oversight and Transparency
I urge you to support (or initiate) congressional oversight on this reallocation of critical law enforcement resources. We deserve accountability: how many agents have been reassigned, for how long, and what is the impact on trafficking, child exploitation, and national security investigations? 5 Restore Agent Assignments and Reprioritize
Please advocate for policy changes that reassign these agents back to their original missions. Trafficking, exploitation, and protecting children must remain a top DHS mission — not a secondary concern to mass deportation. As a parent, the idea that those whose job is to protect children are being pulled away to do something entirely different is deeply unsettling. I believe we can enforce our immigration laws without compromising efforts to prevent the most heinous crimes.