Leaked DHS Memo Calls for Military To Help With 'Nationwide' Deportations 'For Years To Come'

Source: MEDIAite

Aug 2nd, 2025, 12:58 pm


A leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security shows the department anticipates the use of U.S. military personnel in its ongoing mass deportation campaign. The memo, written by DHS senior adviser Phil Hegseth, was obtained by The New Republic, which published it on Saturday. Hegseth is the younger brother of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who would oversee the domestic deployment of U.S. soldiers.

In June, President Donald Trump nationalized nearly 5,000 National Guard members and deployed them in Los Angeles. The president also sent 700 Marines to the city, stating that the deployment was necessary to quell “violent insurrectionist mobs.”

Those Marines and most of the guardsmen have since been withdrawn.

But the DHS memo, which emerged from a June 21 meeting of Homeland Security and Defense officials, including the Hegseths, suggests that soldiers will be deployed on U.S. soil “for years to come.”

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