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The U.S. Marine Corps, in cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has quietly launched a pilot program to station ICE agents at three major military installations: Camp Pendleton in California, Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia and Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
The move, aimed at bolstering security around these bases, has raised as many questions as it seeks to answer.
Abby Hall Blanco, a University of Tampa economics and defense professor, weighed in on the lack of transparency surrounding the program’s inception.
“We don’t really have a whole lot of information at precisely what led up to this specific program,” she told Fox News Digital. “The program is intended to augment security, particularly around the perimeter of these Marine Corps bases.”
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