The U.S. immigration system saw a 173 percent increase in migrant family units illegally crossing the border in July over last year. The apprehension of Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) fell slightly from June to July but remains at Obama-era levels.
The apprehension of illegal border crossers dropped in July by eight percent compared to the previous month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials reported.
An illegal alien smuggled a woman’s daughter into the U.S. and sexually abused her after promising her mother a job, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said Tuesday.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions responded on Monday to a D.C. federal court’s declaration that the Trump administration cannot discontinue the Obama-era DACA amnesty program for illegal aliens, promising that the Justice Department will appeal the decision.
Weeks before children return to classrooms, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) schooled Central Texas campus resource officers, administrators, and mental health counselors on the subjects of campus safety and security.
The TSA is considering eliminating passenger screening at small and mid-size airports across the country, sparking concerns among experts.
Vice President Mike Pence promised National Cybersecurity Summit participants that the U.S. “will not tolerate any foreign interference in our elections from any nation state — not from Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, or anyone else.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) attempted to turn the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee’s confirmation hearings on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) nominee Kathy Kraninger on Thursday into a morality play about President Trump’s immigration policies.
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Albany, New York office was vandalized by open borders protesters who demand that all immigration and border enforcement be ended across the United States.
A Guatemalan migrant living in Miami — reunited over the weekend with her young daughter after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border — has a message for asylum seekers: find refuge in another country because Americans “don’t have hearts.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign website does not readily mention the Democratic Socialists of America. But the socialist organization played a major role in fueling her victory in last week’s Democratic primary in New York.
President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to house and detain up to 12,000 illegal aliens in Department of Defense facilities.
Federal officials dressed in riot gear arrested eight protesters camped out in front of Portland, Oregon’s, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on Thursday.
The Democratic Party has lost ground with likely voters in battleground districts across the United States after weeks of party members and leaders pushing an agenda of ending all immigration and border enforcement.
The Pentagon has decided on two military bases in Texas that can temporarily house illegal aliens or unaccompanied children from July through December while their cases are processed: Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Bliss.
Protesters descended on the Alexandria townhouse of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Friday morning, demanding the Trump administration reunite illegal immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Last week on Fox and Friends, President Trump was asked about Speaker Ryan’s proposed compromise immigration bill and the conservative alternative proposed by Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. “I’m looking at both of them,” Trump said. “I certainly wouldn’t sign the more moderate one.”
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen corrected the establishment media’s false narrative that President Donald Trump is the first administration that has separated border-crossing adults from the children they brought to the southern border.
“Congress and the courts created this problem and Congress alone can fix it,” she said after taking the podium at the White House.
Hundreds of asylum-seekers traveling with a caravan in an effort to gain entry to the United States will likely be set free into the U.S. through the “Catch and Release” program while they await their asylum hearings.
“You’re doing a good job, and it’s not an easy job,” Trump said to Nielsen during an immigration roundtable on Wednesday at the White House. “I know what you’re going through right now with families is very tough, but those are the bad laws that the Democrats gave us.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen sent a message to members of the “migrant caravan” who are now in Tijuana. The migrants announced they plan to enter the U.S. in massive numbers to declare asylum. Neilsen also addressed her warning to the organizers who may be coaching migrants on how to falsely make a “credible fear” claim.
Busloads of “caravan migrants” arrived in Tijuana on Tuesday evening. An organizer says they plan to “regroup” before making a decision on when, if, or where to cross the U.S. border.
WASHINGTON, DC — American authorities have determined that cyber-criminals are actively targeting the U.S. government and private businesses “in the energy, nuclear, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors” on behalf of Russia, a top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told lawmakers on Tuesday.
Several reports indicate that the fragments of the “migrant caravan” are now arriving south of the U.S. border with Mexico. Border Patrol officials in California and Arizona said they have not seen any illegal border crossings between ports of entry this week.
Former FBI Director James Comey claims he was disturbed by a purported conversation among the President-Elect Trump’s transition team about how to publically “position” the intelligence community’s information that Russia may have attempted to interfere in the 2016 election.
President Donald Trump gave credit to Mexico for helping break up the illegal immigration “caravan” from Honduras to the United States.
President Donald Trump on Friday held a ceremony to sign the $1.3 trillion dollar omnibus budget, at the same time pledging never to sign such a bill again.
The omnibus spending bill, passed by the Republican-controlled House and Senate, will allow more illegal aliens to be released into the United States after they are caught crossing the southern border through the “Catch and Release” program.
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) petition to decide whether the Trump administration’s decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is permitted by federal law. But the Court also made clear that it was only denying DOJ’s extremely rare request to skip the federal appeals court that currently has the case, making it almost certain that the nation’s highest court will take up the case later this year.
Vice President Mike Pence renewed the call to build a border wall after touring the U.S. southern border in Texas and meeting with border patrol and customs officials.
“Elections have consequences.” Lindsey Graham said that after Barack Obama won, but he seems to have a different rule for President Donald Trump.
Another Democrat-appointed federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) violated federal law when it canceled the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty, although this decision will not have any lasting impact because the Supreme Court is certain to take up the controversy in the coming days.
President Donald Trump’s administration is considering a new regulation that would discourage foreign nationals seeking to become permanent residents and United States citizens from using taxpayer-funded welfare.
Senior administration officials quashed a letter from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff recommending the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer negotiate to end a little-known visa program that permits tens of thousands of Canadian and Mexican white-collar workers to work in America.
