President Donald Trump is sending Internal Revenue Service (IRS) workers to the U.S. Southern Border to help immigration officials with efforts to deport illegal aliens.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to deputize some law-enforcement workers.
Those workers include criminal investigators from the IRS.
They are being deployed to the border to help with immigration efforts, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
IRS criminal investigators often carry firearms and can make arrests.
According to the IRS website, they currently investigate tax return preparer fraud, bankruptcy fraud, and identity theft schemes, among other crimes.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem asked Bessent to provide agents who would help investigate financial flows involving human trafficking networks.
They can also probe businesses that employ illegal aliens.
The move was revealed in a memo dated February 7, the Journal reported.
The agents could help arrest, detain, and transport criminal illegals.
It comes after Trump previously quipped about sending IRS agents to the border.
Last month, Trump appeared to joke that new IRS agents could be sent to help with deportation efforts at the border.
In 2021, former President Joe Biden approved the hiring of nearly 87,000 IRS full-time employees by 2031.
Trump told supporters gathered at the Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas:
“They hired, or tried to hire, 88,000 workers to go after you and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them, or maybe we’ll move them to the border.
“I think we’re going to move them to the border where they are allowed to carry guns,” he added.
“You know, they’re so strong on guns.
“But these people are allowed to carry guns.
“So we will probably move them to the border.”
WATCH:
Trump suggests sending IRS agents to the border https://t.co/ljTsu78o1I pic.twitter.com/1HyeL9HCr7
— New York Post (@nypost) January 26, 2025
Now, it appears that Trump wasn’t joking after all.
Trump promised Americans on the campaign trail that he would work to deport illegal aliens.
He has kept that promise and started with those who’ve committed crimes in addition to illegally crossing the U.S. border.
The administration has moved quickly on that pledge.
During the first 18 days of Trump’s second presidential term, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) racked up 11,000 illegal immigrant arrests.
The administration has also shut down the controversial Biden-era CBP One app.
DHS has also moved to repeal limits on ICE agents, allowing the agents to more freely find and detain illegals.
As Slay News reported earlier, ICE revealed that Trump is now on target to arrest one million illegal aliens during his second term.
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