Pentagon Deploys Civilian Staff to Help DHS in Fight Against Illegal Immigration

The new Pentagon deployments are part of the Trump administrationโ€™s โ€˜whole-of-governmentโ€™ strategy to secure the southern border and enforce immigration laws.

The Pentagon has announced that it will allow its civilian employees to assist Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel in operations related to border security and immigration enforcement, as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to deter unlawful border crossings and drug trafficking.

โ€œToday the Secretary of Defense authorized the DoD Components to detail qualified Department of Defense (DoD) civilian employees to support the Department of Homeland Securityโ€™s (DHS) border security efforts as well as interior immigration enforcement,โ€ Sean Parnell, the Pentagonโ€™s chief spokesperson, said in a June 2 statement. He added that the new assignments will support โ€œcriticalโ€ DHS operations.

In a June 1 memo, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clarified that the deployments would be temporary and structured as either reimbursable or non-reimbursable, depending on whether the assignment qualifies as a form of professional development comparable to a training program. He asked Pentagon leaders to balance the training benefits of the deployments with how they might affect regular operations, noting that the training value could fade over time.

Hegseth emphasized that DoD civilian employees taking part in these deployments must comply with DHS protocols, and that further guidance will be issued by the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in coordination with Homeland Security.

In his statement, Parnell added that โ€œprotecting our homeland from bad actors and illegal substancesโ€ has been a key focus of President Donald Trump since day one of his second term in the White House.

โ€œWhether on the border or in our communities, allowing qualified DoD civilian employees to support DHS will accelerate the progress already made by Service members in achieving our national security goals,โ€ he said.

The decision to deploy Pentagon assets to help with immigration enforcement is in direct alignment with Trumpโ€™s executive order 14167, issued on his first day in office this term. The order called on the DoD to deploy sufficient personnel to the southern border and tasked U.S. Northern Command with sealing the border and repelling threats such as unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, and transnational criminal activity.

Byย Tom Ozimek

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