Although the Internal Revenue Service has the responsibility of collecting taxes, some members of the department could soon have more duties added to their roles. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem asked the Department of the Treasury to deputize some law enforcement workers to assist with immigration enforcement in a memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to deputize some Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators and other Treasury Department personnel to perform immigration enforcement, according to a DHS document and an agency spokesperson.