DHS Asks for 20,000 National Guard Personnel to Help Deport Illegal Immigrants

The military said it has received a request from the Department of Homeland Security.

A deportation officer with Enforcement and Removal Operations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City field office conducts a brief before an early morning operation in the Bronx borough of New York City on Dec. 17, 2024. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo

Homeland security officials have requested 20,000 personnel to help with their large-scale deportation operation, officials confirmed on May 16.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked for 20,000 National Guardsmen “to help carry out the President’s mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens,” Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for DHS, told The Epoch Times in an email.