US Post Office has begun helping in Trump’s deportation fight

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has reportedly “quietly” begun working with Trump administration immigration authorities.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) — which is the USPS’s law enforcement arm — has joined a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) illegal alien task force, according to the Washington Post.

May I introduce you to the USPIS (this is a real photo of postal inspectors) https://t.co/9tNmDFVHJA pic.twitter.com/IcUJc38GC2

— B (@ninthhostage) April 28, 2025

To find, detain, and deport illegals, USPIS is “seeking photographs of the outside of envelopes and packages and access to the postal investigation agency’s broad surveillance systems, including Postal Service online account data, package- and mail-tracking information, credit card data and financial material, and IP addresses.”

That being said, the Post’s sources claimed that the agency is cooperating with President Donald Trump’s immigration directives to avoid upsetting the administration. But regardless of the reason, their assistance is helping.

The Post notes, for instance, that the USPIS was involved with the recent raid of a Colorado Springs nightclub that led to the arrest of at least 114 illegal aliens.

Part of busting up the underground nightclub in Colorado Springs included the arrest of 114 illegal aliens.#DEA partners and @DHSgov placed patrons (in the U.S. illegally) on buses for processing and likely eventual deportation. pic.twitter.com/aLyQUdy5YN

— DEARockyMountain (@DEAROCKYMTNDiv) April 27, 2025

After the raid, a senior DHS official said that collaboration with the USPIS was “a key part of ensuring law enforcement has the resources they need to fulfill President Trump’s promise to the American people to remove violent criminals from our streets, dismantle drug and human trafficking operations, and make America safe again.”

“Under President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security will use every tool and resource available to secure our border and get criminal illegal aliens out of our country. The safety of American citizens comes first,” the official added.

To its credit, the Post admits that the USPIS participating in law enforcement activities such as this isn’t new.

“Postal inspectors, for example, arrested President Donald Trump’s adviser Stephen K. Bannon on a yacht off the coast of Connecticut in 2020 after he was indicted on criminal fraud charges,” the Post notes.

The United States Postal Inspection Service confirmed to CNN that Postal Inspectors were the ones who arrested former Trump senior adviser Steve Bannon on Thursday.#USPS #Bannon @KristenhCNN @alisonkmain

— Michael Holmes (@holmesnetmedia) August 20, 2020

But the paper also argues that USPIS’ involvement with immigration authorities is itself new — and new in a bad way.

“The Inspection Service is very, very nervous about this,” one of the paper’s anonymous sources claimed. “They seem to be trying to placate Trump by getting involved with things they think he’d like. But it’s complete overreach. This is the Postal Service. Why are they involved in deporting people?”

Because the law is the law?

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is also upset about this.

“It is deeply concerning that the U.S. Postal Service appears to be operating as a surveillance arm of federal immigration enforcement without clear legal authority or oversight,” ACLU senior counsel Kia Hamadanchy told Gizmodo.

“The ability of the postal service to operate the mail cover program must be subject to strict transparency, accountability, and legal safeguards. Using postal records in this fashion to facilitate deportations raises serious constitutional and civil liberties concerns,” she added.

The “mail cover program” she mentioned referred to the USPIS’ habit of seeking out the photographs of the outside of envelopes and packages.

All this comes two years after a group of senators submitted a letter to Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale asking that the USPIS “reform its policies to require a federal judge to approve any surveillance of Americans’ mail” to protect from “unchecked government monitoring.”

The senators noted that USPIS can only conduct this level of surveillance because it “operates according to [its] own rules with no supervision by the courts.”

“However, USPIS is neither required by law to conduct mail cover monitoring for other agencies, nor to keep it secret from the targets,” the senators continued. “USPIS is choosing to provide this surveillance service and to keep postal customers in the dark about the fact that they have been subjected to monitoring.”

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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