Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration

Story here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u... w/ @hamel.bsky.social @mhkeller.bsky.social @alexandraberzon.bsky.social

Last week, we wrote about DHS agents being pulled off child exploitation + terrorism investigations to arrest undocumented immigrants. Now we've seen internal data showing drop in drug + weapons cases.

- Drug arrests ↓ 11%

- New drug cases ↓ 15%

- Weapons seizures ↓ 73%

Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations

NEW: Under mounting pressure from President Trump, the Homeland Security Department has surged staff and resources to deportation, hindering other core missions, including criminal investigations into child abuse, national security and sex trafficking www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

UPDATE: The email has disappeared from the inbox of SSA employees who received it, I am told

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

Here's our scoop from Tuesday. SSA says the data is secure. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

In his letter, Borges said he was quitting b/c he could not “verify that agency data is being used in accordance with legal agreements or in compliance with federal requirements.” He also said employees were afraid to speak out internally for "fear of retribution or termination."

NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.