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Mar 19, 2019
Immigrants convicted of some crimes may be detained even years after their release, the Supreme Court says; the law does not allow them to seek bail.
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Mar 18, 2019
In a speech outlining her department's focus in the coming year, Kirstjen Nielsen said that cybersecurity — not illegal immigration — topped her list of national security threats.
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Mar 18, 2019
Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said America is not prepared for the current generation of threats and declared cybersecurity her top priority in a speech at George Washington University on Monday.
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Mar 16, 2019
Even as homeland security has sought to tighten borders, the State Department is highlighting some of the abuses that have sent people fleeing to the United States.
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Mar 11, 2019
A routine inspection of a container from Colombia that arrived in Newark uncovered one of the largest shipments of cocaine ever seized in the New York City area.
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Mar 11, 2019
A routine inspection of a container from Colombia that arrived in Newark uncovered one of the largest shipments of cocaine ever seized in the New York City area.
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Mar 07, 2019
Census officials says the plans are no different from arrangements with many other federal databases. Experts agree — but say they may depress response to the head count anyway.
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Mar 06, 2019
Testifying to Congress on Wednesday, Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, faced criticism of the Trump administration's treatment of migrant families at the border and claims of a national emergency.
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Mar 06, 2019
Ms. Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, is expected to face particular scrutiny over the practice of separating migrant families apprehended at the border.
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Mar 06, 2019
Ms. Nielsen is expected to face particular scrutiny from House lawmakers over the practice of separating migrant families apprehended at the border.
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Mar 06, 2019
Kirstjen Nielsen sidestepped whether she supported the tactic as a way to deter illegal immigration and cited a "humanitarian catastrophe" on the border.
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Mar 06, 2019
Ms. Nielsen is expected to face particular scrutiny from House lawmakers over the practice of separating migrant families apprehended at the border.
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Feb 26, 2019
House Democrats issued subpoenas to three cabinet officials, but administration officials did not immediately say whether they would comply.
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Feb 26, 2019
A House committee voted to authorize subpoenas that Democrats say are necessary to get to the bottom of the child separation policy, moments before another panel held its first hearing on the policy.
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Feb 13, 2019
Mr. Long was praised for the agency's handling of Hurricane Harvey, but criticism over its Hurricane Maria response and his reported misuse of government vehicles shadowed him.
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Feb 12, 2019
The president, who said he would have to study the agreement, all but ruled out another government shutdown and emphasized that he would find "other methods" to finance a border wall.
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Feb 12, 2019
President Trump said "I can't say I'm happy" about a bipartisan border security agreement that does not fund his wall, but he does not think the government will shut down.
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Feb 12, 2019
The president said that he would have to study the deal before deciding whether to sign or veto it, but that he thought a looming government shutdown would be avoided.
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Feb 03, 2019
New Delhi said several Indian students had been unwittingly caught up in an operation intended to expose visa fraud.
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Feb 02, 2019
As secretary of homeland security, she signed the memorandum that created the popular program protecting ‘Dreamers.' Now she's fighting to save it.
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Jan 31, 2019
The University of Farmington, outside Detroit, was part of an undercover operation by the Department of Homeland Security, the authorities said.
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Jan 31, 2019
Some Chinese couples were charged as much as $100,000 for a birth-tourism package that included housing, nannies and shopping at Gucci, according to the indictments.
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Jan 31, 2019
Some Chinese couples were charged as much as $100,000 for a birth-tourism package that included housing, nannies and shopping at Gucci, according to the indictments.
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Jan 31, 2019
The semantics are anything but trivial.
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Jan 30, 2019
So many awful people to choose from.
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Jan 24, 2019
The move is intended to dissuade Central American migrants from making the long, dangerous journey through Mexico. It is expected to be challenged in court.
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Jan 22, 2019
The court's action almost certainly means it will not hear the administration's challenge in its current term, which ends in June.
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Jan 18, 2019
Senator Jeff Merkley asked the F.B.I. to open an inquiry, citing a document that he said conflicted with the homeland security secretary's congressional testimony on family separations at the border.
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Jan 18, 2019
The federal shutdown has brought a particular chill to Kodiak, a small town of 6,300 on an isolated island in the Gulf of Alaska.
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Jan 18, 2019
President Trump revived an old and still unproved rumor that hints that Islamic migrants were entering the United States through Mexico and could pose a terrorism threat.
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Jan 17, 2019
Why can't the government account for how many children it separated from their parents at the border?
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Jan 17, 2019
It's not about drugs or crime. It's about the government's failure to adapt to an influx of asylum seekers.
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Jan 17, 2019
The government has reported about 2,700 migrant children separated from their families at the border last year. But the removals may have involved thousands more.
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Jan 17, 2019
The government has said that about 2,700 migrant children were separated from their families at the border last year. But the removals may have involved thousands more.
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Jan 14, 2019
American customs officials, who want to expand a program to include more European airports, say it would help identify and stop potential terrorists before they could enter the United States.
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Jan 11, 2019
Airport security screeners are opting out in rising numbers during the partial shutdown of the government and their absence is starting to put a strain on airports.
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Jan 11, 2019
Airport security screeners are opting out in rising numbers during the partial shutdown of the government and their absence is starting to put a strain on airports.
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Jan 11, 2019
Airport security screeners are opting out in rising numbers during the partial shutdown of the government and their absence is starting to put a strain on airports.
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Jan 08, 2019
Counterterrorism officials say there has never been a case of a known terrorist sneaking into the country through open areas of the southwest border.
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Jan 08, 2019
The president has seized on the threat of terrorists entering the United States from Mexico to defend his demands for $5.7 billion for a border wall.
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Jan 07, 2019
Delayed mortgage applications, missed paychecks and stymied farmers are among the repercussions of a shutdown with no end in sight.
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Jan 04, 2019
President Trump is considering building a barrier without congressional authorization, but it is not clear that such a step could withstand court scrutiny.
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Jan 04, 2019
A crisis is emerging at migrant shelters as the Trump administration focuses, as one official put it, on "how can we deter, rather than how can we handle."
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Jan 01, 2019
About 150 migrants who tried to enter the United States near San Diego early Tuesday were forced back.
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Jan 01, 2019
About 150 migrants who tried to enter the United States near San Diego early Tuesday were forced back after Customs and Border Protection officers deployed tear gas across the border.
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Jan 01, 2019
About 150 migrants who tried to enter the United States near San Diego early Tuesday were forced back after Customs and Border Protection officers deployed tear gas across the border.
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Dec 30, 2018
The outgoing White House chief of staff's comments come as a partial government shutdown caused by a fight over a border barrier drags into a second week.
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Dec 28, 2018
Confusion over the state's Real ID protocol has come at a critical moment for the agency, which has struggled to maintain public trust.
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Dec 28, 2018
Confusion over the state's Real ID protocol has come at a critical moment for the agency, which has struggled to maintain public trust.
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Dec 27, 2018
A ruling by a federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday said asylum seekers are entitled to due process and can't be detained for years without a hearing.
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Dec 27, 2018
An article about dying black gum trees hidden in a remote New Jersey swamp led me to make a list of other ecological losses. There have been a lot this year.
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Dec 25, 2018
The question is at the heart of investigations by Congress and federal agencies into whether an American gun manufacturer is entangled in the shadowy world of arms smuggling and wildlife poaching.
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Dec 24, 2018
Units that have not been sent to the border must pick up the routine duties for those who have, and those that are deployed are not conducting the training needed to "fight tonight," officials said.
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Dec 23, 2018
A 14-year-old girl is among five people arrested in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man whose body was found in a Far Rockaway park.
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Dec 23, 2018
A 14-year-old girl is among five people arrested in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man whose body was found in a Far Rockaway park.
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Dec 21, 2018
Federal bureaucrats have become adept at blunting the effect of shutdowns on federal services, but this month's bitter and unpredictable fight over a border wall could be different.
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Dec 20, 2018
Two drones that floated over Gatwick Airport in England caused chaos. Technology companies and the government are working to prevent a similar episode from happening in the U.S.
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Dec 20, 2018
Zachary Fuentes, the deputy White House chief of staff, is said to have planned to lie low and take advantage of a Coast Guard retirement program whose renewal has now been removed from a House bill.
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Dec 20, 2018
Kirstjen Nielsen, the Homeland Security secretary, announced that the Trump administration would start sending people seeking asylum in the U.S. back to Mexico while their cases were pending.
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Dec 20, 2018
Mexico reluctantly agreed to accept the immigrants while their cases are considered in court. The move could substantially reduce the number of people trying to gain entry into the United States.
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Dec 20, 2018
Mexico reluctantly agreed to accept the immigrants while their cases are considered in court. The move could substantially reduce the number of people trying to gain entry into the United States.
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Dec 14, 2018
A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died from dehydration while in Border Patrol custody in what Trump administration critics called a casualty of hard-line immigration policy.
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Dec 14, 2018
A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died from dehydration while in Border Patrol custody in what Trump administration critics called a casualty of hard-line immigration policy.
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Dec 13, 2018
In an atmosphere of seeming indifference on the part of U.S. law enforcement, a dangerous movement has grown and metastasized.
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Dec 13, 2018
In an atmosphere of seeming indifference on the part of U.S. law enforcement, a dangerous movement has grown and metastasized.
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Dec 13, 2018
In an atmosphere of seeming indifference on the part of U.S. law enforcement, a dangerous movement has grown and metastasized.
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Dec 12, 2018
A planned stretch of wall in Texas may be the first to be built under President Trump. It's likely to be opposed by landowners, including a wildlife refuge — and possibly SpaceX.
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Dec 12, 2018
A new group of more than 40 deportees, many of them the children of refugees, will be the largest yet to be ejected by the Trump administration.
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Dec 11, 2018
The wall is the biggest sticking point between the president and Democrats. President Trump wants funding for it in spending bills that must pass to avert a government shutdown.
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Dec 11, 2018
The wall is the biggest sticking point between the president and Democrats. Mr. Trump wants funding for it in spending bills that must pass to avert a government shutdown.
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Dec 10, 2018
The number of asylum seekers citing a credible fear of being targeted because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinions or social group rose by nearly 70 percent from 2017.
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Dec 08, 2018
The departure of John F. Kelly leaves the president with an ever-shrinking team of close advisers as he begins to navigate the new power structure on Capitol Hill.
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Dec 08, 2018
The departure of John F. Kelly leaves the president with an ever-shrinking team of close advisers as he begins to navigate the new power structure on Capitol Hill.
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Dec 06, 2018
The suspect, Rev. Kenneth Bernard Hendricks, was accused of preying on altar boys and had ministered in the rural Philippines for decades.
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Dec 04, 2018
The White House and the Department of Homeland Security had requested to continue using American forces as an additional bulwark.
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Nov 30, 2018
A Pentagon official said Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was expected to approve the request, which would keep at least some of the military forces on the border for the Christmas holidays.
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Nov 30, 2018
John Stevenson, 70, and his wife may have to cancel their New York holiday because of a mistake he made on an online form.
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Nov 28, 2018
Yazmin Juárez said her daughter, Mariee, was a healthy 18-month-old when they were detained by the immigration agency for three weeks. Two months later, she was dead.
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Nov 22, 2018
The White House's push to deport Vietnamese who came to the United States before 1995 had also resulted in extended immigration detentions. For now, it has eased off.
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Nov 21, 2018
Should they fashion a life in Tijuana, Mexico, or keep their sights — and hopes — trained on the United States?
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Nov 21, 2018
Asked whether a soldier might be armed while defending border agents from migrants, the defense secretary was unequivocal. "No," he said. "Not with a firearm."
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Nov 21, 2018
The midterm elections are over, and President Trump's talk of the migrant caravan has dwindled. But thousands of troops sent to the southwest border are still there.
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Nov 13, 2018
There were conflicting reports on Tuesday on whether Mira Ricardel, a deputy national security adviser, had been fired.
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Nov 13, 2018
There were conflicting reports on Tuesday on whether Mira Ricardel, a deputy national security adviser, had been fired.
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Nov 12, 2018
The president turns to an old ploy to justify a new ban on people seeking refuge.
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Nov 08, 2018
Officials said the rules would take effect Friday, when the president plans to declare an emergency at the border using the same authority he relied upon for his travel ban.
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Nov 08, 2018
Officials said the rules would take effect Friday, when the president plans to declare an emergency at the border using the same authority he relied upon for his travel ban.
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Nov 08, 2018
The Trump administration is treating it like a wholly owned subsidiary.
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Oct 26, 2018
President Trump is expected to outline plans for the deployment of Army troops and to fortify the border, including executive actions to deny entry to Central American migrants.
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Oct 26, 2018
President Trump is expected to outline plans to fortify the border, including executive actions to deny entry to Central American migrants, and the deployment of United States Army troops.
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Oct 24, 2018
Activists in Honduras hoped the caravan would damage a president they opposed and help migrants. Instead it precipitated a crisis that hurt them and played into President Trump's hands.
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Oct 24, 2018
The Homeland Security and Health and Human Services Departments were not given advance notice, leaving them unprepared for the thousands of family separations that followed.
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Oct 23, 2018
A few months ago, another tremendous caravan of migrants surged toward the U.S. border. Only a fraction made it into the country.
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Oct 23, 2018
A few months ago, another tremendous caravan of migrants surged toward the U.S. border. Only a fraction made it into the country.
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Oct 23, 2018
When President Trump began tweeting warnings and threats about a caravan of migrants headed for the border, his own government could not explain what he meant.
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Oct 22, 2018
New policies to deter illegal immigration include a plan that would ask migrants to choose between their children and longer detention.
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Oct 18, 2018
An expletive-laden blowup over border security between the White House chief of staff and the national security adviser was loud enough to be overheard by several officials in the West Wing.
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Oct 02, 2018
The U.S. agency was so unprepared for the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy that it was unable to keep track of those separated at the border.
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Oct 02, 2018
The agency struggled to track children separated from their parents and gave inconsistent information to migrant parents arriving at the border, an inspector general's report said.
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Sep 28, 2018
A case that attracted little attention at the time is being raised by lawyers of the victims of last year's Las Vegas massacre who are suing MGM Resorts for negligence.
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