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US is rejecting asylum seekers at much higher rates under new Biden policy

A new Biden administration policy has dramatically lowered the percentage of migrants at the southern border who enter the United States and are allowed to apply for asylum, according to numbers revealed in court documents obtained by The Times. Without these new limits to asylum, border crossings could overwhelm local…

Los Angeles Times

Prince Harry visa case: Why is a US think-tank seeking the release of the Duke of Sussex’s application form?

Heritage Foundation accuses Department of Homeland Security of making exceptions for ‘celebrity elites’, citing royal’s recent drug use confessions, reports Joe Sommerlad

The Independent UK

Prince Harry's US visa won't be made public after bid to release it amid drug admissions

US officials have ruled that Prince Harry's US visa application will not be released to the public following a legal bid by a conservative think-tank to have it published after he admitted to drug taking in his memoir, Spare

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Why border crossings fell after Trump-era rules expired

WASHINGTON — Fewer migrants are crossing the southern border of the U.S., and the doomsday scenarios that many politicians feared would follow the expiration of the pandemic-era restrictions known as Title 42 have yet to arrive.

Los Angeles Times

American lawsuit filed to see Prince Harry's visa record after drug use admission

Prince Harry's visa application is under scrutiny after he admitted to taking drugs during his bombshell book Spare. The Heritage Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Homeland Security to examine the application.

Edinburgh Live

Lawsuit demands release of Prince Harry's US visa records after drug admissions

The Duke of Sussex's visa is facing further scrutiny after the Washington-based thinktank, the Heritage Foundation, filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Homeland Security

Daily Mirror

US to dedicate specially trained asylum officers to centers in Guatemala, Colombia

The United States will dedicate specially trained asylum officers to new refugee centers in Guatemala and Colombia, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters on Thursday as Washington seeks to create new lawful pathways for migrants.

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US and Cuba discuss migration as thousands of Cubans arrive under new parole program

American and Cuban officials met Wednesday in Washington to discuss migration for the first time this year following significant changes in how Cuban immigrants are allowed to come to the United States as part of an effort by the Biden administration to curtail a massive exodus from the island.

Miami Herald

Signature Biden asylum reform is now on hold

The Biden administration will pause its signature effort to reform asylum processing at the border, Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times

Biden administration won’t appeal court ruling in Florida immigration case

The Biden administration has declined to appeal a decision from last week that blocks a key Department of Homeland Security program that has helped the agency relieve migrant congestion at the U.S. southern border.

Miami Herald

James Stavridis: The US military needs to create a Cyber Force

Two disturbing incidents roiled the cyber seas last week, one foreign and one domestic. They both strengthen the case — which was already convincing, and which I have been making for almost a decade now — for the creation of a U.S. Cyber Force.

Tribune News Service

Brickbat: Who Has Time for Paperwork?

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security inspector general's report has found the Secret Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement repeatedly failed to get required warrants before conducting cellphone surveillance. The agencies are supposed to get warrants to deploy "stingray" cellphone trackers, which have the ability to not only track a…

Reason

Commentary: Reflections, and regrets, 20 years after I opened the Department of Homeland Security

This was my second draft notice. The first came from Richard Nixon in 1969 and took me to Southeast Asia. More than 30 years later came notice number two, this time from George W. Bush. The president called me to leave my post as Pennsylvania’s governor to serve in the…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Born after 9/11, Homeland Security turns 20 facing new tasks

The Department of Homeland Security was created 20 years ago in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and hundreds of employees from across the department gathered Wednesday to mark the anniversary

The Independent UK

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The Department of Homeland Security Turns 20. Its Legacy Is Disastrous.

Surveilling American citizens without due process, separating undocumented children from their parents, the TSA—the DHS has been a failure.

The Conversation

30 years later, Waco siege still resonates – especially among anti-government extremists

Feb. 28, 2023, marks 30 years since the beginning of the Waco siege, the confrontation at a Texas compound that killed around 80 members of the Branch Davidian religious community and four federal agents.

Tribune News Service

The nation's largest federal law enforcement agency has new use-of-force rules. How much will change?

SAN DIEGO — Last year, in an effort to fulfill his campaign promises of bold criminal justice reform, President Joe Biden issued an executive order he said would increase accountability for federal law enforcement agencies.

Tribune News Service

Homeland Security hires outside lawyers for potential impeachment proceedings

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recently hired outside counsel to prepare for potential impeachment proceedings, as House Republicans ramp up calls to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his handling of the southwest border.

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Roll Call

Homeland Security hires outside lawyers for potential impeachment - Roll Call

The Department of Homeland Security hired outside counsel for potential impeachment proceedings against Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Workers’ voices just got stronger — thanks to DHS

Workers across this country just got a big boost, and from an unlikely source: the Department of Homeland Security. How’s that?

Roll Call

House oversight panel clashes at hearing on border security - Roll Call

Lawmakers on a House oversight panel traded barbs Tuesday at a hearing over the Biden administration’s policies at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Al Jazeera

Nearly 1,000 migrant families still separated by Trump-era policy

More than 3,800 children were removed from families between 2017 and 2021 as part of a crackdown on border crossings.

WEKU

Congress tightens U.S. manufacturing rules after battery technology ends up in China

The Department of Energy allowed a taxpayer-funded breakthrough in batteries to transfer overseas with little oversight

Miami Herald

Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas to visit Miami, meet with Haitians and Cubans

MIAMI — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is visiting Miami on Monday, where he will meet with the local Haitian and Cuban communities as well as local and federal authorities.

Miami Herald

DHS sees huge drop in Haitian, Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan arrivals at southern border

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recorded a precipitous drop in encounters with migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally this month, the department said on Wednesday, putting January on track to see the lowest level of monthly border encounters since the beginning of the Biden administration.

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