The FBI Surge Into Indian Country, Montana’s US Attorney Explains

Crime is up 10% since Kurt Alme last served as US Attorney here in Montana. What changed since then? Illegal immigration and the COVID-fueled crime wave.

President Trump put Kurt Alme back on the job as acting US Attorney. Alme joined us recently to talk about the Trump Administration's efforts to surge federal law enforcement resources into Indian Country in particular. 

Kurt Alme: "Attorney General Bondi, FBI Director Patel announced- it's called Operation Not Forgotten, and they'll be surging 60 FBI special agents over a six month period out into Native American reservations to help us address unresolved violent crime, including crimes related to missing and murdered indigenous women."

Aaron Flint: "What will those resources do on the ground level?"

Kurt Alme: "So they're going to do two things. Some of them will do independent investigations or cold case investigations. Others are going to come in and help take work off the plate of those agents who, right now, are working those cases. And I want to, you know, say thanks to all the FBI agents, all the BIA agents, tribal law enforcement out there who are working those cases every day."

What about all of the criminal illegal aliens in the state following the open border policies of the Biden Administration? 

Kurt Alme: "You're reaching right into the primary initiative of the President and the Attorney General for law enforcement. It's called Operation Take Back America. Earlier this year, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced it. It has three goals, very similar to the goals we've had before with Project Safe Neighborhood- protecting our communities from violent crime and drug trafficking, and then also two expanded purposes that you are referring to. One of them is to eliminate the cartels and the transnational criminal organizations that have come into our country, and also to stop the large flow of illegal immigrants. So you know, we've had in our toolbox for some time- firearms charges, drug charges, human trafficking charges- that we can use when we encounter dangerous people in the community. Now we're going to have our immigration charges at our disposal too, to help us identify and get these people off the street, either through criminal prosecution or through administrative deportation."

Full audio with Kurt Alme is in the 2nd half of the podcast below.