Homeland Security

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the Department of Homeland Security has seized over 11 million counterfeit N95 masks in its ongoing fight to protect frontline health care workers

Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Public Safety have released the Texas Homeland Security Strategic Plan 2021-2025, the state’s framework for establishing homeland security priorities and focusing its efforts to develop, sustain, and employ homeland security capabilities.

The last time Alejandro Mayorkas faced Senate confirmation, not a single Republican voted for him because there was an open investigation into his management of the U.S. immigration agency under President Barack Obama

President-elect Joe Biden nominated Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security. Here are five things to know about the former deputy secretary of DHS.

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

President Donald Trump says he will send federal agents into Chicago and Albuquerque to help combat rising crime as he runs for reelection under a “law-and-order” mantle

The women were forced to live and work in filth and near darkness, the federal agent said, surviving on only the tips they received from performing massages and sexual favors.

She tracked the world’s most notorious terrorists in the years after 9/11, yet she calls herself the “unexpected spy.” Warm and welcoming, Tracy Walder is the opposite of what you might expect from a former CIA operative. “People don’t necessarily see us coming,” Walder said. “And sometimes it can seem a bit disarming, and perhaps that’s a good thing.”...

She tracked the world’s most notorious terrorists in the years after 9/11, yet she calls herself the “unexpected spy.”

The Trump administration is waiving federal contracting laws to speed construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, moving the president closer to fulfilling a signature campaign promise in an election year but sparking criticism about potential for fraud, waste and abuse

The Department of Homeland Security is agreeing to share citizenship information with the U.S. Census Bureau. The agreement was made in response to President Donald Trump’s order to collect data on who is a citizen through administrative records following the Supreme Court’s rejection of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census form. The Department of Homeland Security two weeks ago...

FBI Director Christopher Wray spoke to the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday about the threat of domestic terrorism, saying “The threats out there aren’t the same from a decade ago. They’re evolving in scale, in impact, in complexity, in agility.”

Democrats visiting two migrant detention facilities in Texas Monday described deplorable conditions inside.

Advocates say they’re concerned over the arrests of Indian students who were enrolled at a phony university in Detroit that was created by the government to bust an immigration scam. Federal authorities in January announced that the University of Farmington was fake and created by the Department of Homeland Security to catch people making money by helping foreigners stay in...

A House committee voted Tuesday to subpoena Trump administration officials over family separations at the southern border, the first issued in the new Congress as Democrats have promised to hold the administration aggressively to count. The decision by the Oversight Committee will compel the heads of Justice, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services to deliver documents to lawmakers.

India said it is closely monitoring the detention of several Indian students in the U.S. and has urged authorities there to not deport them against their will. Indian news reports say as many as 129 Indians were among those detained Jan. 30 by U.S. immigration authorities in connection with enrollment at a fake university. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said...

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sparred with CNN’s Jim Acosta on Monday over President Donald Trump continuing to call the media the “enemy of the people.”

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Monday called on President Donald Trump to tone down his rhetoric, even as Trump again derided the media as “fake news” that was stoking “great anger” in the U.S. Johnson, who served as Homeland Security chief under former President Barack Obama, told CNN that recent hate crimes “should be a wake-up call to...

Immigration officials were not prepared this summer to manage the consequences of a “zero tolerance” policy at the Southwest border, which resulted in the separation of nearly 3,000 children from their parents, Homeland Security’s watchdog said in a report made public on Tuesday. The resulting confusion along the border led to misinformation among separated parents who did not know why...