The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Pentagon for more than 20,000 National Guard members to assist with President Donald Trump’s effort in mass deporting illegal immigrants and border security.

Pentagon attorneys were reviewing the request with “interior immigration enforcement,” The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing a Pentagon official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations. It was unknown what role National Guard members would play and whether states would also have to approve the plan.

Last week, Trump issued a proclamation directing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to “supplement existing enforcement and removal operations by deputizing and contracting with State and local law enforcement officers, former Federal officers, officers and personnel within other Federal agencies, and other individuals to increase the enforcement and removal operations force of the Department of Homeland Security by no less than 20,000 officers in order to conduct an intensive campaign to remove illegal aliens who have failed to depart voluntarily.”

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