Memo’s note establishes the need to persuade senior Pentagon officials to become much more serious about the use of soldiers to combat illegal immigration – and not only on the border. This suggests that the DHS provides for many other uses of soldiers in urban centers, noting that style operations may be necessary “For the years to come.” And he compares the threat posed by transnational gangs and cartels to have “cells and al-Qaeda fighters or Isis who operate freely in America”, alluding to a rampant militarized posture inside.
“The memo is alarming because it testifies to the intention to use the army in the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment,” said Carrie Lee, principal researcher at the German Fund Marshall. “The army is the most powerful and coercive tool that our country has. We do not want the military to apply the law. It absolutely undermines the rule of law. “
The service note was written by Philip Hegseth – the younger brother of the defense secretary Pete Hegseth – who is a principal advisor to the Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and the DHS liaison officer at the Ministry of Defense. As such, he also sheds light on the role of Hegseth The Younger, which has been the subject of media speculation qualifying him as an obscure but influential figure of the Maga orbit of his brother.
