John Torres, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director, told Newsmax Monday that the hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested so far during Operation Tidal Wave in Florida will help secure the United States’ borders for years to come.
“That’s some of the things that aren’t really reported is that there’s data collection ongoing,” Torres said on “Wake Up America.” “You’ve got pocket litter, as we call it. There’s a lot of information that you can gather from these networks – phone numbers, names. It allows the agents to do a further, deeper investigation where they might be using wiretaps, where they can use undercover agents, for example.
“It goes beyond just arresting somebody at a location. You really want to dive down deeper and take a look at the infrastructure that is supporting this entire network, and it allows the agents to go after the cartels and use racketeering type of investigations.”
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