Department of Homeland Security

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was removed on Thursday from her post after months of internal disputes, congressional scrutiny and tensions with the White House, with some officials inside DHS welcoming her departure, according to a new report.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Congress on Tuesday that her adviser Corey Lewandowski does not play a role in approving contracts at DHS, but internal agency records reviewed by ProPublica indicate he has signed off on major spending decisions.

Rep. Jamie Raskin accused Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of engaging in a "cover-up" related to two fatal shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis earlier this year during a contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Half of Americans now support abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declined to retract her earlier characterization of Alex Pretti and Renee Good as engaging in "domestic terrorism" during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that Democrats are undermining preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup by blocking DHS funding amid a broader dispute over immigration enforcement.

The Department of Homeland Security has warned that Iran and its proxies "will almost certainly escalate retaliatory actions—or calls to action" in the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in January it had hired 12,000 officers

Federal immigration authorities arrested 261 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program during the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, according to a new report.

A senior DHS official told state election leaders this week that ICE officers will not be deployed to polling places during the November midterms.

A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instructor told congressional Democrats on Monday that the agency has sharply reduced training requirements for new officers and directed instructors to teach policies he believes are unconstitutional.

Three federal law enforcement officials, including one senior official within the Department of Homeland Security, say DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fabricated a story about a cannibal on an ICE deportation flight.

A senior adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is accused of entering the cockpit of a government jet during ascent and later firing a pilot over a missing personal item.

Judges in multiple states have described cases in which detainees were separated from infants or held in conditions that raised medical concerns

The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly launched a nationwide initiative directing agents to investigate naturalized citizens who may have voted before obtaining citizenship.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a social media post that during the Biden administration "8% of the entire population of Nicaragua illegally entered the US," along with "7% of Cuba, 6% of Haiti, and 5% of Honduras."

One DHS official involved in the purchase request described the idea of using the aircraft for deportations as "far-fetched."

Hundreds of federal judges across the United States have issued more than 4,400 rulings since October finding that immigration authorities unlawfully detained migrants.

The Department of Homeland Security has issued hundreds of administrative subpoenas to major technology companies seeking identifying information about social media accounts that criticize ICE.

A CBP supervisor has been charged with harboring an undocumented immigrant described in court records as both his romantic partner and his niece, according to a new report.

Acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,Todd Lyons, told lawmakers that the agency will play a central security role at this summer's World Cup and declined to commit to pausing enforcement operations near match venues.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the Department of Homeland Security's growing use of warehouse-style immigration detention facilities amounts to what she called a "black box system that disappears people."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and related personnel are describing low morale, mandatory deployments, and plans to resign in an online forum used by current and former agents, according to a report published by Wired.

The motion was filed by the property management company that operates Gray's Landing along with a group of residents, who said federal agents' actions have appeared disproportionate and have for months made life in their homes difficult.

The Department of Homeland Security has filed a motion to expedite deportation proceedings and end asylum claims for a 5-year-old boy and his father after the pair were detained in Minnesota and held at a Texas family detention center, according to their attorney.

A string of bright orange buoys has begun appearing in the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas, as the Department of Homeland Security moves forward with a plan to build a floating barrier system along large portions of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Department of Homeland Security misrepresented two Venezuelan immigrants as members of the Tren de Aragua gang after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot them in Oregon in January, according to immigration and criminal justice experts.

Democratic leaders in Congress are pushing for new limits on federal immigration enforcement, arguing that recent operations by the Department of Homeland Security have crossed a line and must be restrained.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed banning formal cooperation agreements between local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has tempered her public tone following backlash over the fatal shooting of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti by federal officers.