NEWS --> An internal DHS memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.
We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/198708…
The DHS memo lays out the agenda for a July 21 meeting among top level officials from DHS and Defense Department. It was authored by Philip Hegseth (yes, he's Pete Hegseth's brother), a top adviser to DHS Sec Kristi Noem and liason to the Pentagon.
newrepublic.com/article/198708…
Memo says bluntly that US military leadership need to better grasp the threat of illegal immigration *in the homeland.*
Experts say this means DHS, maybe w/Pete Hegseth's help, may be pressuring top Defense officials to get more involved domestically.
newrepublic.com/article/198708…
Memo says DHS is seeking an "agreement" in which Pentagon agrees to "detail personnel within ICE and CBP."
It also describes threat of cartels/transnational gangs as akin to having Al Qaeda and ISIS.
Experts see those lines as particularly alarming.
newrepublic.com/article/198708…
Strikingly, the memo says straightforwardly that what happened in Los Angeles is the sort of operation that may be necessary "for years to come."
As one expert told me: "They see Los Angeles as a model to be replicated."
newrepublic.com/article/198708…
Trump seems to be using "invasion" agitprop to recreate the national trauma that reigned after 9/11, to hyper-militarize the homeland.
As one scholar tells me, this "could create a kind of domestic ‘Forever War,’ but one that is uniquely dangerous."
newrepublic.com/article/198708…
We posted the text of most of the memo in this link, omitting logistical and biographical information:
newrepublic.com/article/198689…
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