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Trump's Department of Homeland Security looking to deputize IRS agents for immigration enforcement

[FoxNews] DHS Secretary Noem requests IRS agents be provided to help ICE

The Trump administration is looking to deputize Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents to take on and assist with illegal immigration enforcement efforts, according to a senior official with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Either they obey orders or they quit. Both no doubt are acceptable.

DHS sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent requesting that the IRS provide agents to be used for immigration enforcement efforts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The senior DHS official said the expectation is that the request will be approved.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who signed the letter, said President Donald Trump directed her agency to "take all appropriate action to supplement available personnel to secure the southern border and enforce the immigration laws of the United States," even through use of the agency’s authority to deputize federal employees to perform immigration functions.

Through the implementation of Trump’s directive, Noem noted DHS has secured partnerships with a number of law enforcement officials, who have agreed to assist in carrying out the president’s immigration agenda.

For instance, DHS has deputized law enforcement components of the Department of Justice, members of the Texas National Guard and law enforcement officials with the Texas Attorney General’s Office.

"Even with these resources available, more can be done to fully implement the Executive Order," Noem wrote. "It is DHS’s understanding that the Department of Treasury has qualified law enforcement personnel available to assist with immigration enforcement, especially in light of recent increases to the Internal Revenue Service’s work force and budget."

She informed the agency that ICE needs IRS agents to assist and serve on interagency task forces to help build complex cases that blend tax, immigration and money laundering charges.

It sounds interesting and quite rewarding, actually. Kind of like a government skunkworks — lots of room for innovation and individual accomplishment.

Noem also asked for agents to help with targeting employers engaging in unlawful hiring practices, investigations into human smuggling and trafficking rings, seizing assets, contract oversight, apprehensions, detentions and removals.

While the IRS is responsible for collecting taxes and enforcing related laws, its criminal investigators also work to uncover drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption.

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File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1 Trump orders thousands of IRS agents to be sent to the southern border to remove illegal migrants

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-11 02:50|| 2025-02-11 02:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Can they be trusted? Not sure this is a prudent move.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-11 02:55|| 2025-02-11 02:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Making enemies into a useful asset?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-11 02:56|| 2025-02-11 02:56|| Front Page Top

#4 'Accountant with a gun'
I'm thinking a 1950s B/W cowboy movie.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-11 07:28|| 2025-02-11 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, when they advertised for the 87,000 new tax collectors, one of the job requirements was that they be armed. Better to have them on the border than in the community.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-02-11 09:09|| 2025-02-11 09:09|| Front Page Top

#6 This will encourage some of them to take the buyout.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-02-11 09:48|| 2025-02-11 09:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Probation = they can be fired

Posted by Frank G 2025-02-11 10:51|| 2025-02-11 10:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Except from GS-1811 Series OPM Regs-emphasis added! Making them 1811's has a downside.

U.S. Office of Personnel Management logo

"Criminal Investigation Series 1811
Individual Occupational Requirements"

"Summary of Reassignment"...

"3. The Agency's Right to Reassign
An agency may reassign an employee when:

The agency has a legitimate organizational reason for the reassignment; and

The vacant position is at the same grade, or rate of pay (i.e., if the movement is between pay systems such as from a General Schedule position to a Federal Wage System position), as the employee's present position.

The agency's right to direct reassignment includes the right to reassign an employee from a special rate position to a non-special rate position at the same grade, or to a position with less promotion potential than the present position. (Reassignment to a position with more promotion potential than the present position requires competition under the agency's merit staffing plan.) The position to which the agency reassigns an employee may be located in the same or a different geographic area (e.g., reassignment from Houston to Washington, DC)."

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-02-11 14:56|| 2025-02-11 14:56|| Front Page Top

#9 I'ma thinking they would make great security for the rebuilding of Gaza?

Posted by Oregon Dave 2025-02-11 19:42|| 2025-02-11 19:42|| Front Page Top

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