In this Media Miss Minute, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s brother wants the military to step in and help deport immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. And the Trump administration is taking steps to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
Media Miss on the right: Hegseth’s brother calls for military role in years-long deportation effort
Philip Hegseth, brother of Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth and a senior advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, is calling for the military to help the Trump administration with its effort to deport people living in the U.S. illegally.
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A leaked memo attributed to Philip Hegseth outlines a proposal for the pentagon to send in troops to assist the trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.
President Donald Trump has already tapped the military to help in his campaign to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the U.S. by stationing troops at the border and deploying the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles to respond to anti-ICE protests.
The plan laid out in the memo calls for operations much like those seen in L.A. in urban centers “for years to come.” The use of military forces in domestic matters is typically limited, but the memo suggests a potential shift in policy that could enhance collaboration between the Department of Defense and Homeland Security in addressing immigration challenges.
Media Miss on the left: Rubio says US in process of designating Muslim Brotherhood as terror group
The Trump administration is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
In an interview with New York City radio host Sid Rosenberg, Rubio said the state department is going through the process of getting the designation.
Sid Rosenberg: Yeah, that’s right. So while we talk about designating the cartels, Marco, as a terrorist organization, I got to ask you: Why wouldn’t you guys designate the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR? I just – I look at these organizations, I have a mayor’s race here in New York City with this psycho, this lunatic Mamdani. Both of these groups you know are behind him, especially the Muslim Brotherhood. Is that something you think we can count on maybe in the near future? Maybe not CAIR just yet, but certainly the Muslim Brotherhood?
Secretary Rubio: Yeah, all of that is in the works, and obviously there are different branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, so you’d have to designate each one of them. But let me just tell you that there’s a process which I didn’t fully appreciate till I came into this job, and I know people don’t want to hear about processes, but because these things are going to be challenged in court, right? Any group can say, “Well, I’m not really a terrorist – that organization is not a terrorist organization,” so you have to show your – you have to show your – the paperwork. You have to show your work like the – like a math problem when you go before court.
Rubio said it’s a long process and it’s likely the Brotherhood will fight it in court.
“So, we have to go through this process internally where you have to do the review, you have to document and justify what it is,” he said.
In June, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced legislation called the “Muslim Brotherhood Is a Terrorist Organization Act of 2025.” So far, it hasn’t made it any further than introduction.
The Muslim Brotherhood has been linked to Hamas, which is a U.S.-designated terror group. Other countries have already labeled the MB a terrorist organization, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
The plan to designate the MB a terror group is a departure from previous Trump administration policy. In 2017, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerman called the idea of classifying the entirety of the Muslim Brotherhood a terror group “problematic.”
The Muslim Public Affairs Council, is condemning the plan, saying Rubio “dishonestly and dangerously linked mainstream Muslim civil society organizations—specifically the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)—to terrorism.”
The MPAC said in a statement, “The Secretary of State does not have the authority to casually smear lawful American organizations or treat political disagreement as grounds for terrorism designation.”
