A new wave of fake federal agents is sweeping Maine, which now leads all U.S. states in scammer border cops flooding immigrant communities to whip up anti-ICE fever.
A just-released survey shows the Pine Tree State with a 60 percent year-to-year increase in scammers posing as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
The whopping increase in impersonation scams leads all 50 states, according to an FBI Crime Data Explorer report.
The study surfaced Tuesday just weeks after the FBI warned about criminals posing as ICE agents to commit violent crimes in various states.
The No. 2 scam state is New Mexico, with a 37 percent increase. Washington ranks third with a 33 percent hike.
So Maine’s more than doubling in the ICE scam venue is nearly twice those to the No. 2 and No. 3 states.
Democrat congressmen and women use the impersonation scam as fake evidence to try to show that ICE is an uncontrolled police agency.
U.S. House Democrats complained November 13 to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that ICE agents are failing to show proper ID.
The FBI issued a bulletin just a week before about people impersonating ICE agents committing violent crimes.
No such thing as coincidence.
The bureau cited several examples in which criminals have targeted victims while identifying themselves as immigration agents and wearing shirts or jackets with the ICE label.
There have been reports of threats, robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults, according to the FBI bulletin.
“Due to the recent increase in ICE enforcement actions across the country, criminal actors are using ICE’s enhanced public profile and media coverage to their advantage to target vulnerable communities,” the FBI said.
The FBI bulletin said the impersonation scams make it difficult to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate immigration-enforcement practices.
