Under orders from President Donald Trump, the FBI has started visiting the homes of innocent protesters, according to a report.
In one case, special needs teacher Miles Serafini, 26, told independent journalist Ken Klippenstein that agents visited his home after he participated in a June protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Arizona. The two agents, who only identified themselves as “James” and “Keith”, were recorded on Serafini’s security camera.
“We came out here to ask you questions regarding a protest that happened on the 11th of June,” one of the agents explained. “We’ve been just basically going around asking questions for a few people … and your name was brought up.”
Last month, Trump issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which authorized the Department of Justice to treat “extremism on migration” as an indicator of terrorism. Attorney General Pam Bondi cited Trump’s memorandum in a Sept. 9 directive adding any necessary FBI agents to a “temporary ICE Protection Task Force.”
