Deportation Pivot Drains Counterterrorism Capacity

When a government redirects counterterrorism personnel and analytic resources toward an aggressive immigration enforcement campaign, it erodes institutional expertise and surveillance capacity needed to detect and disrupt ideologically or state‑linked threats. The result is a gap between strategic rhetoric (promised national plans) and operational readiness, visible in clustered domestic attacks and near‑misses. — This reframes immigration enforcement as not only a legal and moral question but also a structural national‑security risk with immediate public‑safety consequences.