After Democrats crossed the multi-billion-dollar Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to target Americans working under President Joe Biden, the Trump administration has sought to harness its human power for a completely different purpose .

Many IRS officials are represented with the Immigration Enforcement Bureau to draw extra talent to help with the vast crackdown on illegal immigration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday said the Daily Callenor News Foundation. was confirmed to. Continue checking for DHS Note Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem asked the Treasury to represent law enforcement employees, including IRS criminal investigators, to assist in immigration enforcement issues. (Related: Kristi Noem suggests that “corrupted” FBI agents leaked details of the ice attack to corporate media outlets)

“It is a DHS understanding that the Treasury has qualified law enforcement agencies to help immigration enforcement, particularly in light of the recent increase in the workforce and budgets of the Internal Revenue Service,” Noem said in a memo,” Noem said in a memo. I did. First acquired By the Wall Street Journal.

NOEM’s memo required Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to provide agents to help investigate financial transactions in human trafficking organisations and businesses employing illegal immigrants who are not permitted to work in the United States. Agents provided by Bessent will help arrest, transport and detain illegal immigrants and others involved in such illegal transactions.

The move to leverage the IRS’ law enforcement pool follows the passage of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act by Congress, which was then dominated by Democrats. The package provided the IRS with $80 billion in additional funding, and strengthened the agency with additional resources and thousands of IRS agents to allow for more closely monitoring of American workers.

Congressional votes were controversial because the IRS is not popular with the American people. Released Pu Research Survey August 2024 The IRS is the country’s most hated institution, with 50% of respondents expressing their views against the institution, and only 38% expressing positive views.

President Donald Trump has long been legislative I’ve been teased for a while To deploy his newly hired IRS agent to the US-Mexico border. However, the Republican president may have found their use under the new DHS request.

Unlike IRS revenue agents and officers working in audits and collections, agency criminal investigators are law enforcement officers who have the authority to carry firearms and arrest them.

IRS officials can provide special expertise in the fight against massive amounts of illegal immigration and the associated crimes. The Organized Crime Syndicate has exploited billions of dollars in the border crisis caused under the Biden administration.

Trump took office with the pledge to carry out the largest deportation operation in US history. His administration has already oversaw the arrest of immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) and the rapid rise in numerous executive orders and internal directives aimed at leading to a tough enforcement agenda.

DHS’s demands on the Treasury have followed previous moves to empower other federal agents with immigration authorities. The DHS directive, released in January, works within the Federal Prison Bureau, which has many prisons of Drug Enforcement, the U.S. Marshall Services, the Alcohol Bureau, the Tobacco Bureau, Firearms and Explosives (ATFs) and the same ice agents.

Trump tapped former Missouri Sen. Billy Long to lead the IRS, but his nomination has yet been confirmed by the Senate.

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