During the Trump administration, progressive politicians and activists made abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a top campaign issue. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and…
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When it comes to immigration, the Biden administration apparently doesn’t know whether it’s coming or going. Either way, the U.S. is dragging Mexico along for the ride. At Washington’s urging, Mexican authorities have flown 13,000 Central American migr…
President Joe Biden wants billions of dollars to house migrant children, speed up U.S. citizenship petitions and process asylum seekers. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas applauded the “smart [plan]… to better manage th…
By a vote of 56-43, the Senate confirmed Joe Biden’s nominee Alejandro Mayorkas as the seventh confirmed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its component agencies which include Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the U.S. Bord…
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) recently introduced H.R. 8791 – the Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Reform Act. This bill would change a number of things about how the department operates, and is largely a House Democratic wish list targeting many…
On October 15, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf announced the opening of the U.S. government’s first-ever integrated law enforcement operations center. This new center will directly target human trafficking and forc…
The U.S. and China are waging an escalating paper war over media visas amid continuing allegations of espionage by Beijing. Washington fired the latest salvo this week when it placed restrictions on five more Chinese state news outlets. Designating the…
At an October 21 press conference, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials announced the arrest of 15 foreign student-workers for fraudulently claiming to be working for companies that did not exist. In addition, as many as 1,100 foreign nation…
A year after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities were overwhelmed by waves of illegal aliens, conditions have improved in South Texas. Unannounced government inspections of five detention centers in Laredo and San Antonio last February …
Just four days after the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s bid to wind down DACA on a procedural technicality, an appellate court in Washington, D.C., green-lighted a program to fast-track removal of illegal aliens. In a significant vict…