Overview

• The U.S. Postal Inspection Service has joined a Homeland Security task force to assist in locating, detaining, and deporting undocumented immigrants.
• Postal Service surveillance tools, including mail covers, package tracking, and financial data, are being used to identify and locate individuals suspected of being in the country illegally.
• Postal inspectors recently participated in a Colorado Springs raid that resulted in the arrest of over 100 undocumented immigrants.
• Insiders within the Postal Inspection Service have expressed unease, describing the agency's involvement in immigration enforcement as an overreach of its traditional mission.
• The collaboration marks an escalation in the Trump administration's use of non-immigration federal agencies to bolster mass deportation efforts.