The Department of Homeland Security is asking for the Internal Revenue Service to help crack down on immigration, according to a memo viewed by The New York Times, a move that could suck resources away from the agency’s tax enforcement efforts.

Law enforcement officers for the Internal Revenue Service typically investigate tax-related crimes. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sent a

The request comes as Trump boasts about curtailing the IRS, whose agents focus on tax violations and other financial crimes.

The request marks the Trump administration’s latest effort to devote more federal resources to fulfill his campaign pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

No. The Trump administration announced on Jan. 21 it was cancelling a policy preventing ICE from making arrests in schools, churches and hospitals. The administration has also indicated it could conduct raids at workplaces, a tactic the Biden administration typically avoided.

Department of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem argued that DHS needs more resources to investigate the finances of businesses suspected of employing illegal migrants, as well as the money

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.