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Fewer officers mean slower checkpoints, and travelers have taken to social media to vent about the long wait times.

The Biden administration will stop using immigration detention facilities in Massachusetts and Georgia that are the subject of abuse allegations

The Department of Homeland Security will again delay the requirement for air travelers to have a Real ID-compliant form of identification by Oct. 1, pushing the deadline back 19 months, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Tuesday.

The Department of Homeland Security will again delay the requirement for air travelers to have a Real ID-compliant form of identification

President Joe Biden’s administration announced an increase Tuesday in the number of temporary seasonal workers who will be allowed to work in the U.S. this year as the U.S. economy recovers from the pandemic

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas discussed the new administration’s priorities in Monday’s White House press briefing. “To put it succinctly, the prior administration dismantled our nation’s immigration system in its entirety.” Specifically, he spoke to joint efforts to tackle family reunification, an initiative led by former Women’s Refugee Commission staffer Michelle Brané. “This is an all-of-society effort to...

Department of Homeland Security agents, including those from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, have been told to be ready to protect federal property in Washington if there is unrest on or after Election Day, two DHS officials told NBC News. The agency is regularly tasked with providing additional security around the nation’s capital on inauguration days,...

With just weeks left before the Nov. 3 election, it’s decision time for a number of current and former Trump administration officials who are debating whether to speak out against President Donald Trump

A whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security is delaying his testimony to Congress

In a 2018 White House meeting of many top Trump advisers, Stephen Miller demanded show of hands to allow separation of migrant kids and parents, officials say.

The Governments of Mexico and the United States agreed on Friday to extend another month the restriction of non-essential travel at the border that expired on August 21 by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Both countries will attempt to coordinate health measures in the border region that will be in effect until 23:59 hours on September 21, 2020,” Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign…

The top two officials at the Department of Homeland Security, acting Secretary Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary, are not legally qualified to hold those positions, a government watchdog concluded Friday. The Government Accountability Office said Wolf and Cuccinelli assumed those jobs under an order of succession that was issued by an acting...

Peter Vincent served as a prosecutor in the Department of Homeland Security when it was first founded in 2003. He also served in the DHS under former President Obama. He tells LX that the Trump Administration has been using law enforcement agencies as “political pawns” during the ongoing protests.

The U.S. has offered more than a thousand professional athletes exemptions to proclamations barring their entry into the country, as the administration pushes for the return of professional sports, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.  So far, the Department of Homeland Security has issued 1,703 exemptions, a person familiar with the situation told CNBC, requesting anonymity because the...

A joint investigation by NBC News and KNTV — NBC’s Bay Area station — found that the F-1 visa program, which lets international students work at firms in the U.S. after graduation, appears to have been exploited by fake companies providing false employment verifications.

President Donald Trump announced that both southern and northern U.S. borders would close temporarily to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

As the U.S. steps up its response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Department of Homeland Security is warning airline passengers that their flights may wind up rerouted if officials discover mid-flight that someone onboard has been in China in the last 14 days.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Saturday after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border that the government needs a broader, more effective approach to border control. He suggested the Pentagon might contribute with its expertise in surveillance and monitoring. “How do we get out of treating the symptoms and get at the root of the issue,” Shanahan said in an interview while...

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen went to an Arizona border city Saturday on the second day of a southwest tour following the recent death of another Guatemalan migrant child in U.S. government custody, which President Donald Trump said was “strictly the fault of the Democrats.”. DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman said Nielsen was in Yuma, Arizona, but gave no other details....

Former officials say the Trump administration dismissed an intelligence assessment last year that showed refugees did not present a significant threat to the U.S., NBC News reported. Hard-liners in the administration, which has consistently sought to exaggerate the potential security threat posed by refugees, then issued their own report this year that several former officials and rights groups say misstates...