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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — President Donald Trump has requested the Department of Homeland Security nonstop Internal Revenue Service agents to assistance with migration enforcement astatine the U.S.-Mexico border.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sent a missive to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent connected Friday requesting transgression investigators to assistance tackle quality trafficking networks and find businesses hiring workers successful the U.S. illegally, arsenic good arsenic different immigration-related tasks.
The petition is portion of Trump's efforts to ramp up mass deportations.
Despite "border czar" Tom Homan and Noem receiving his ballot of assurance implicit the weekend, sources archer NewsNation that Trump is unhappy with the aboriginal results of his migration crackdown and wants to spot much enforcement.
Trump angry over ICE arrest numbers: Source
On Sunday, Trump was asked astir migration arrests and denied being bothered by the mode migration enforcement efforts person gone truthful far.
"They're doing an astonishing job, I think. Tom Homan is doing an astonishing job. Kristi Noem is doing an astonishing job. But it's not casual uncovering murderers who cognize they're being looked for," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One portion helium flew from Florida to New Orleans to be the Super Bowl.
However, a root with cognition of the substance tells NewsNation that the president told aides “the numbers are excessively f—— low."
ICE averaged 787 arrests per day betwixt Jan. 23-31, and astir 11,000 arrests person been made successful the past 18 days. The White House has reported 461 undocumented migrants were released from custody owed to wellness concerns, insufficient detention abstraction and different factors.
IRS asked to help with immigration crackdown
Noem suggested IRS agents assistance with investigating quality trafficking networks and uncovering businesses hiring amerciable migrants.
"It is DHS.'s knowing that the Department of the Treasury has qualified instrumentality enforcement unit disposable to assistance with migration enforcement, particularly successful airy of caller increases to the Internal Revenue Service's enactment unit and budget," she said successful the missive to Bessent.
The propulsion by DHS could propulsion resources distant from taxation enforcement efforts. Of astir 100,000 employees, the IRS has astir 2,100 transgression investigators who look into cause trafficking, wealth laundering and corruption, according to the New York Times.
Noem's connection comes arsenic Republicans turn progressively frustrated with the IRS, with 1 lawmaker filing a connection to abolish the bureau and rewrite the existent taxation code.
