Overview
- The document recounts a July 21 meeting between senior DHS and Defense Department officials aimed at coordinating a deeper military role in immigration operations.
- It calls for a verbal agreement to detail DoD personnel into ICE and CBP to boost intelligence sharing and support large-scale nationwide planning.
- The memo equates transnational gangs and cartels with Al Qaeda and ISIS to justify treating migration enforcement as a counter-terror mission.
- It cites the deployment of about 5,000 National Guard members and Marines in Los Angeles as a template for interior military missions “for years to come.”
- Policy experts warn the proposals threaten Posse Comitatus restrictions and represent an unprecedented militarization of civilian law enforcement.