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Greg Abbott orders probe of sexual abuse reports at migrant child shelter

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demanded Wednesday that the Biden administration shut down a shelter holding illegal immigrant children in San Antonio after the state received reports of child abuse.

April 7, 2021

DHS secretary Mayorkas to visit southern border Thursday

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will visit the southern border Thursday to get an up-close look at the surge that's overwhelmed his department.

April 7, 2021

DHS hired asylum fraudster to work as immigration officer, prosecutors say

Federal agents arrested a Homeland Security immigration officer Wednesday, accusing him of lying about his own identity to falsely obtain asylum and citizenship himself.

April 7, 2021

Andy Biggs demands answers on border-terror connection

Homeland Security must reveal the full extent of terrorism risks at the southern border and explain why it deleted a press statement that exposed at least two terror-related arrests, Rep. Andy Biggs said in a new letter Wednesday.

April 7, 2021

Border Patrol rescues two young children abandoned by smugglers

Smugglers pushed a 5-year-old girl and six-year-old boy across the border in California then abandoned them, according to Border Patrol agents who saw it happen in real time Monday and rushed to rescue the children.

April 6, 2021

DHS: Border terrorism statement deleted due to sensitive information

Homeland Security said Tuesday that it removed a press release announcing the arrest of two terrorism suspects along the southwest border because it wasn't approved by higher-ups, and revealed sensitive information.

April 6, 2021

Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden DHS chief, vows to defend ICE, battle sanctuary cities

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he's preparing to take on sanctuary cities that refuse to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he wants to see more illegal immigrants face criminal prosecution for jumping the border.

April 6, 2021

Texas sues to force DHS to end sanctuary policy

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try to force Homeland Security to take custody of criminal aliens that local police arrest, saying the new administration is violating the law by refusing to come pick them up.

April 6, 2021

Public wants veto over releasing illegal immigrants into communities: Poll

Americans overwhelmingly support giving communities a say in whether illegal immigrants will be released into their communities, according to new polling released Tuesday.

April 6, 2021

Lynne Patton, top Trump official, punished over using federal job to create RNC video

A former high-ranking Trump official has agreed to serve a four-year bar from holding a federal job after she admitted to using her government position to help create a video used by then-President Trump during the GOP nominating convention last year.

April 6, 2021

DHS deletes press release announcing arrest of terrorist suspects

Homeland Security has removed the press release announcing the arrest of two Yemeni men on the terrorist watch list.

April 6, 2021

Mark Brnovich, Arizona AG, invites Kamala Harris to go on border tour

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has invited Vice President Kamala Harris to take a tour of the border this month, saying she needs to get a first-hand look at the situation she's been put in charge of solving.

April 5, 2021

DHS may restart border wall construction to plug ‘gaps’

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told department employees he may restart border wall construction to plug what he called "gaps" in the current barrier.

April 5, 2021

Border Patrol arrests two terrorist suspects in California amid migrant surge

The Border Patrol announced Monday that agents arrested two Yemeni men who were on the FBI's terrorist watch list over the past two months, confirming Republican lawmakers' reports that terrorism suspects were attempting to sneak into the country as part of the migrant surge.

April 5, 2021

Ken Cuccinelli rips removal of Trump asylum screening policy by Biden administration

Homeland Security has issued new rules requiring every affirmative-asylum decision to undergo a supervisor's review, in a move the department described as "quality assurance" but which one former staffer said was an attempt to browbeat officers into approving more cases.

April 4, 2021

‘Catch-and-bus’ spreads Biden border-surge migrants across U.S.

The migrants from the Biden border surge are being nabbed along the Rio Grande, the Arizona deserts and the remoteness of New Mexico and southern California. But they're not staying there.

April 1, 2021

Churches reopening doors for Easter

Easter sunrise will find America's churches far more open than they were a year ago as COVID-19 -- and local officials -- shut doors and sent pastors and priests to the internet to minister to their flocks.

April 1, 2021

New DHS plea for ‘virtual’ volunteers to help manage border surge

Homeland Security issued a striking new plea for volunteers to help at the border, telling employees in a new email that they won't even have to be on-site but can instead do a "virtual deployment."

April 1, 2021

Alejandro Mayorka praises Border Patrol for saving children’s lives

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas praised "heroic" Border Patrol agents Wednesday for saving lives of migrants surging into the U.S., and warned families against sending or bringing their children on the journey north.

March 31, 2021

Rita Hart drops attempt to overturn Iowa congressional election

Rita Hart, a Democratic congressional candidate, said Wednesday that she is dropping her effort to overturn the results of her election loss in Iowa, saying the effort to contest the race had become too "toxic."

March 31, 2021