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Joseph Gedeon and Kira Lerner in Washington

Pentagon asks civilian employees to join ‘volunteer force’ to aid Ice deportations

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The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. Photograph: Alexander Drago/AP

The Pentagon is recruiting civilian employees to join Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and asking staff to sign up for deployments to immigration enforcement facilities across the United States.

The defense department has posted a job listing requesting volunteers for civilian federal employees apply to join a “volunteer force” supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operations. On Wednesday, the department reportedly emailed civilian employees asking them to take up this opportunity.

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