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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has requested the deployment of civilian law enforcement officers from several other cabinet departments to the U.S.-Mexico border as early as next week, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO.

A senior DHS official who confirmed the memo's authenticity said the Justice Department has already made a commitment to dispatch officers to the border, and that DHS is actively "working with" other departments named in the memo to determine the availability of law enforcement resources. They include the departments of State, Labor, Energy, Transportation, Interior and Justice.

The request suggests that personnel with such assignments as guarding diplomats, patrolling national parks, and protecting nuclear weapons might effectively "become Customs and Border Protection personnel," as one former Justice Department official put it, with the power to arrest border-crossers.

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