The Latest Breaking News from Homeland Security

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas highlighted efforts to stop fentanyl entering the country during an event in New York.

Reps. Clay Higgins, R-La., and Lou Correa, D-Calif., have teamed up on legislation to tackle cross-border human trafficking.

​WASHINGTON — The fiscal 2024 appropriations process has just begun, but some patterns in the distribution of earmarks by the majorities in their respective chambers are starting to emerge.

Despite a push to hold down overall spending, earmarks in four House bills have grown from less than $1.6 billion to more than $1.9 billion.

"The agencies failed to fulfill their mission and connect the public and nonpublic information they received"

Diarrhea was rampant, children were losing weight, and parents had to clean soiled clothing in sinks because guards would not provide them with clean items, mothers at an overcrowded Texas border facility in Laredo told Department of Homeland Security investigators last month, according to an internal report obtained by The…

As an 8-year-old was dying in Border Patrol custody last month, officials at the Texas detention center where she had been held were complaining about the facility's "overuse of hospitalization," according to an internal report obtained by The Times.

WASHINGTON — A new Senate report sharply criticizes the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis for not acting on information about the potential for violence leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

A Senate report criticizes federal agencies for not acting on information about potential violence ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack

A new Senate report says the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored “a massive amount of intelligence information” ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U

The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Biden administration to implement immigration enforcement priorities.