A disclosure that a whole lot of members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia might have labored within the Homeland Safety Division calls for solutions from the anti-terrorism company, Rep. Ritchie Torres mentioned Monday.

Torres (D-Bronx) despatched a letter to the division Monday afternoon asking its management to take “all applicable measures” to make sure the company doesn’t make use of violent far-right extremists, his workplace mentioned.

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., speaks throughout a Home committee on Homeland Safety listening to addressing threats to election safety on the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP)

The Undertaking on Authorities Oversight, an impartial watchdog, reported final month that greater than 300 Oath Keepers listed in a leaked 2015 roster described themselves as lively or former Homeland Safety Division staff.

Most of these members had retired from the division, in keeping with the watchdog. However the blinkered nature of the reported listing raised concern that extra authorities staff may have joined the Oath Keepers within the years since.

“It’s a elementary battle of curiosity for any member of an anti-government group just like the Oath Keepers to work for the U.S. authorities, and significantly for [Homeland Security] given its function in regulation enforcement and nationwide safety,” Torres mentioned within the letter.

He requested Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to offer details about how the division is addressing doable Oath Keepers membership inside its ranks.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a news conference during the U.S.-Mexico High-Level Security Dialogue, at the State Department, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in Washington.

Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks throughout a information convention throughout the U.S.-Mexico Excessive-Degree Safety Dialogue, on the State Division, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

The Homeland Safety Division didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Torres was the lone signer on the letter. It used the letterhead of the Home Homeland Safety Committee; the Bronx congressman serves because the committee’s vice chairman.

Democrats have been dashing to place their last stamps on the 117th Congress earlier than Republicans take management of the Home and its committees Tuesday.

The Homeland Safety Division, which has greater than 240,000 staff, prolonged its long-running home terrorism advisory in November.

The division mentioned the advisory marked the seventh such discover since January 2021, the month that former President Donald Trump’s election lies impressed his followers to assault the U.S. Capitol.

Greater than 20 Oath Keepers have been charged in reference to the Jan. 6 assault.

Two leaders of the group — Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder, and Kelly Meggs, the chief of its Florida chapter — have been discovered responsible of seditious conspiracy in November.

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