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In this July 28, 2020, file photo, federal officers deploy tear gas and crowd control munitions at demonstrators during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland, Ore. A new Department of Homeland Security inspector general report, released just ahead of the Nov. 3, 2020 election, criticizes the department's handling of the unrest in Portland. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) **FILE**

Audit finds DHS cut corners when it sent agents to Portland riots

Department of Homeland Security officials cut too many corners when they deployed additional agents to Portland, Oregon, over the summer to quell riots near the federal courthouse, the department's inspector general said in a new report this week, delivering the latest blow over the aggressive federal response.

November 3, 2020
FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2020, file photo, police use chemical irritants and crowd control munitions to disperse protesters during a demonstration in Portland, Ore. New York, Seattle and Portland, three cities recently labeled "anarchist jurisdictions" by the U.S. Justice Department, are suing to to invalidate the designation and to fight off the Trump administration's efforts to withhold federal dollars. The lawsuit, filed, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 in U.S. District Court in Seattle, ridiculed Trump's action as offensive to the Constitution and common sense, but said the consequences of withholding federal money during a pandemic "are deadly serious." (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Judge Michael Mosman restricts feds amid Portland protests

A judge on Monday ordered federal police to stay penned inside a one-block radius from the courthouse in Portland, ruling that they were violating protesters' rights when they went into crowds blocks away to try to arrest agitators.

November 2, 2020

Suspect dies after refusing to stop for Border Patrol checkpoint

A person died Sunday after barreling through an inspection station at a Border Patrol highway checkpoint in Texas, bailing out of the car, running across the median and getting struck by a vehicle headed the other way on the interstate, Homeland Security officials said.

November 2, 2020
In this June 17, 2018, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. A federal judge on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, urged the Trump administration to do more to help court-appointed researchers find hundreds of parents who were separated from their children after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border beginning in 2017. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP, File)

EXCLUSIVE: DHS, DOJ ready new crackdown on bogus asylum claims

The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice are on the verge of finalizing a new asylum crackdown on "frivolous" claims, with two new regulations demanding migrants meet a tougher standard for proving persecution, The Washington Times has learned.

November 1, 2020
Acting Homeland Secretary Chad Wolf walks in front of a new section of the border wall after giving a speech Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in McAllen, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

DHS marks nearly 400 miles of border wall

Homeland Security officials took a victory lap Thursday to mark completion of nearly 400 miles of border wall, putting a check next to President Trump's most famous 2016 campaign promise and mocking news outlets that had predicted the project would never get off the ground.

October 29, 2020
Workers place sections of metal wall as a new barrier is built along the Texas-Mexico border Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, near downtown El Paso. Top Trump administration officials will visit South Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, attempting to show progress on perhaps the president's best-known campaign promise four years ago. But most of the wall went up in areas that already had smaller barriers. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

DHS mocks Pelosi, media over border wall: ‘Outright lies’

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf celebrated "nearly 400 miles" of border wall construction Thursday by mocking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and media critics who'd said President Trump would never be able to get it done.

October 29, 2020
This March 27, 2018, provided by the Department of Homeland Security, then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and then-Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor, right, meet with Honduran President Juan Hernandez, not pictured, and security ministers from the Northern Triangle countries in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Taylor, a former Trump administration official who penned a scathing anti-Trump op-ed and book under the pen name “Anonymous” made his identify public Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. (Tim Godbee/Department of Homeland Security via AP)

Miles Taylor reveals himself as ‘Anonymous’

Former Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor revealed himself on Wednesday to be "Anonymous," the author of a book and op-ed critical of President Trump.

October 28, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Eppley Airfield, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs record-low refugee target

President Trump signed a new record low limit on refugees for 2021 and instituted a new ban on most refugees from countries with a nexus to terrorism, the White House said Wednesday, completing a four-year effort to rewrite America's marquee humanitarian relief program.

October 28, 2020