The directive is the latest in a flurry of moves the new administration has taken on immigration.

The acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamin Huffman, has outlined plans to extend immigration enforcement powers to Justice Department agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the U.S. Marshals Service, the memo quoted in the report showed.

The Trump administration wants more federal agents to be armed with the power to carry out deportations as part of the president’s long-held promise of making immigration a central part of his second-term agenda,