Source: International Business Times
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reportedly warehousing thousands of newly branded vehicles that agents say are too conspicuous for routine field work, a controversy that is drawing fresh scrutiny to a fleet order placed when Madison Sheahan served as the agency's deputy director to former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, according to a rew report. According to reporting published Monday by the Washington Examiner, many of the vehicles are being kept in garages or detention facilities because officers do not want to use clearly marked ICE cars during day-to-day enforcement operations. The Examiner also reported that ICE personnel said the agency had "never had marked vehicles" before this rollout and that the newly wrapped pickups and SUVs, bearing the ICE logo and the slogan "Defend the Homeland," made little practical sense for the type of work agents usually do.
