Noem deputizes up to 600 State Department employees as immigration officers

EXCLUSIVE — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has deputized State Department employees to carry out immigration enforcement duties, further expanding the pool of federal workers eligible to assist with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort.

The Washington Examiner learned late Tuesday that Noem had signed a memorandum to deputize up to 600 State Department special agents at field offices nationwide to assist DHS agency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with arresting and deporting illegal immigrants inside the United States.

The memo, obtained first by the Washington Examiner, authorized special agents within the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service to perform the functions of an immigration officer, including “investigating, determining the location of, and apprehending, any alien who is in the United States in violation of

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