WSJ has learned of Trump giving U.S. Justice Department agencies the power to expel migrants

US President Donald Trump has given three agencies of the country's Ministry of Justice - the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Marshals Service - the authority to deport illegal migrants. This was reported by the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on January 23.

The relevant data follows a memo provided to the media by Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamin Huffman. It adds that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also have the right to expel migrants from now on.

It is noted that usually DEA and ATF officers were not involved in deportation decisions, unless they were not involved in weapons or drug trafficking offenses. In turn, the Marshals Service has previously been involved only in cases of immigration law violations by federally wanted individuals.

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Earlier, on January 22, acting U.S. Defense Secretary Roberta Sales said that the Pentagon will additionally deploy to the western part of the border with Mexico 1.5 thousand troops, helicopters and military intelligence units to combat illegal migration and organize military airlift to deport more than 5 thousand illegal immigrants from the sectors of San Diego, California, and El Paso, Texas, detained by Customs and Border Protection.

On the same day, Trump restricted the right of illegal migrants who entered the U.S. through the southern border. The US President authorized and directed the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the State Department to take all necessary measures to immediately repel the entry, repatriate and remove illegal immigrants across the country's southern border.

Prior to this, on January 21, Thomas Homan, a border security supervisor in the Trump administration, said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun detaining illegal migrants for further deportation. He noted, however, that ICE's actions cannot be called "raids" as they are part of targeted law enforcement operations.

On the same day, a coalition of at least 18 US states filed a lawsuit against the president's decision to limit the granting of US citizenship by birthright. Another group of states, which included Arizona and Washington, filed another separate lawsuit against Trump's signature decision.