New voluntary deployment lets DOD civilian workers back Homeland Security efforts amid immigration crackdown

The Defense Department (DOD) is starting a voluntary programme for its civilian employees to spell to the confederate borderline to enactment Department of Homeland Security (DHS) efforts there. 

The bureau released a memo Monday authorizing its civilian employees to unpaid to question and enactment border operations. 

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A U.S. Border Patrol cause watches arsenic immigrants hole to committee a autobus aft crossing the U.S.-Mexico borderline successful Eagle Pass, Texas, Jan. 7, 2024. The Defense Department is creating a programme to let its civilian workforce to unpaid to spell to the confederate borderline to enactment operations there. (John Moore/Getty Images)

"Protecting our homeland from atrocious actors and amerciable substances has been a absorption of the President and of the Secretary of Defense since Day One of this Administration," said Sean Parnell, main Pentagon spokesperson. "Whether connected the borderline oregon successful our communities, allowing qualified DoD civilian employees to enactment DHS volition accelerate the advancement already made by Service members successful achieving our nationalist information goals."

This voluntary programme was astatine the petition of DHS, a U.S. authoritative told Fox News.

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A U.S. Border Patrol cause stands connected a cliff looking for migrants that crossed the confederate borderline adjacent Sasabe, Ariz., Jan. 23, 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

It was not wide however galore DOD civilian employees are expected to unpaid oregon what benignant of enactment they volition do. Fox News Digital has reached retired to the DOD and DHS. 

The memo, authored by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, reads, "Detail assignments whitethorn beryllium either reimbursable oregon non-reimbursable.

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A Border Patrol cause connected horseback monitors the country adjacent wherever the U.S.-Mexico borderline obstruction meets the Pacific Ocean connected Nov. 7, 2021. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

"Non-reimbursable details are authorized wherever the expected payment of a item would beryllium comparable to grooming oregon improvement programs that different would beryllium conducted astatine a DoD Component's expense."

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News of the voluntary programme comes arsenic the Trump administration continues to ace down connected amerciable migration and people transgression amerciable immigrants for deportation.