Overview

• Leaked memo authored by Philip Hegseth, DHS senior adviser and brother of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calls for long-term domestic deployment of military personnel.
• The document characterizes transnational gangs and drug cartels as comparable to Al Qaeda and ISIS cells operating within the United States.
• It outlines action items to secure verbal agreements for detailing Department of Defense personnel within ICE and CBP to enhance information sharing.
• Officials aim to institutionalize military support for operational planning beyond the U.S.-Mexico border and into urban centers nationwide.
• Legal experts warn that embedding military forces in civilian immigration enforcement undermines constitutional limits and risks a permanent domestic war, and DHS declined to provide comment.