This just in: President Trump has just fired almost every employee at the Department of Homeland Security’s Civil Rights branch.

The Civil Rights branch was responsible for overseeing deportations of illegal aliens.

Over 100 staff have been fired!

According to DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, the move aims to “streamline oversight to remove roadblocks to enforcement.”

Take a look at the breaking news:

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President Trump means business when it comes to solving the immigration crisis in our country, and his administration has already made significant headway on that promise.

Removing this bureaucratic hurdle will make it faster and easier to enforce immigration laws and streamline deportations.

The New York Times has more details:

The Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security on Friday, gutting a government office responsible for conducting oversight of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The more than 100 staff members were told on Friday they would be put on leave for 60 days to find another job in the administration or be fired in May, according to five current and former government officials. Mr. Trump also closed the ombudsman for Citizenship and Immigration Services, another office responsible for scrutinizing the administration’s legal immigration policies.

The moves were the latest attempt by Mr. Trump to root out civil rights divisions and oversight mechanisms across government agencies. But the shuttering of the Homeland Security Department’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was particularly notable given the lack of transparency over the administration’s immigration crackdown.

Mr. Trump has been determined in his second term to ensure that his administration is made of up of loyalists who will not try to block his agenda.

Just this week, the Trump administration stonewalled a federal judge seeking information about the use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport immigrants with little to no due process to a prison in El Salvador.

“It’s a demonstration of their total contempt for any checks on their power,” said Deborah Fleischaker, a former civil rights office worker and chief of staff of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Biden administration. She said the office “endeavored to make the D.H.S. mission work with respect for civil rights, civil liberties and privacy.”

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“This is a clear message that those things do not matter to this administration,” she added.

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Homeland Security Department, said the decision was meant to “streamline oversight to remove roadblocks to enforcement.”

“These offices have obstructed immigration enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles and undermining D.H.S.’s mission,” Ms. McLaughlin said. “Rather than supporting law enforcement efforts, they often function as internal adversaries that slow down operations.”

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