A new measure would require an investigation into how roughly 600 military lawyers were used as immigration judges and special assistant U.S. attorneys.
Hegseth formed a panel to "conduct an ongoing, long-term, department-wide review of all aspects of the military legal system as it affects our warriors."
A legal memo that came out days before the U.S. military operation said such a move would “not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense.”
As the Trump administration engages in a campaign of mass deportations, military experts and veterans say immigrant troops and their relatives are targets.