Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem recently reached out to Scott Bessent, head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), to request the use of IRS investigators to assist with the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan.

WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security has asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to deputize some law-enforcement workers, including IRS criminal investigators, to assist in immigration enforcement,

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to deputize some Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators and other Treasury Department personnel to perform immigration enforcement, according to a DHS document and an agency spokesperson.