Homeland Security

A whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security is delaying his testimony to Congress

Governor Cuomo blasts Feds after they admitted to making “inaccurate or misleading statements” that led to the ban. News 4’s Chief Investigative Reporter, Jonathan Dienst reports.

President Donald Trump says he will send federal agents into Chicago and Albuquerque to help combat rising crime as he runs for reelection under a “law-and-order” mantle

The women were forced to live and work in filth and near darkness, the federal agent said, surviving on only the tips they received from performing massages and sexual favors.

The Trump administration is waiving federal contracting laws to speed construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, moving the president closer to fulfilling a signature campaign promise in an election year but sparking criticism about potential for fraud, waste and abuse

The Department of Homeland Security has suspended Global Entry and several other trusted traveler programs for all residents of New York. Myles Miller reports.

The Department of Homeland Security is agreeing to share citizenship information with the U.S. Census Bureau. The agreement was made in response to President Donald Trump’s order to collect data on who is a citizen through administrative records following the Supreme Court’s rejection of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census form. The Department of Homeland Security two weeks ago...

The Department of Homeland Security criticized a New York law that just went into effect allowing undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses, saying it will protect criminal at the expense of law-abiding residents. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

FBI Director Christopher Wray spoke to the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday about the threat of domestic terrorism, saying “The threats out there aren’t the same from a decade ago. They’re evolving in scale, in impact, in complexity, in agility.”

Democrats visiting two migrant detention facilities in Texas Monday described deplorable conditions inside.

Advocates say they’re concerned over the arrests of Indian students who were enrolled at a phony university in Detroit that was created by the government to bust an immigration scam. Federal authorities in January announced that the University of Farmington was fake and created by the Department of Homeland Security to catch people making money by helping foreigners stay in...

A House committee voted Tuesday to subpoena Trump administration officials over family separations at the southern border, the first issued in the new Congress as Democrats have promised to hold the administration aggressively to count. The decision by the Oversight Committee will compel the heads of Justice, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services to deliver documents to lawmakers.

India said it is closely monitoring the detention of several Indian students in the U.S. and has urged authorities there to not deport them against their will. Indian news reports say as many as 129 Indians were among those detained Jan. 30 by U.S. immigration authorities in connection with enrollment at a fake university. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said...

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sparred with CNN’s Jim Acosta on Monday over President Donald Trump continuing to call the media the “enemy of the people.”

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Monday called on President Donald Trump to tone down his rhetoric, even as Trump again derided the media as “fake news” that was stoking “great anger” in the U.S. Johnson, who served as Homeland Security chief under former President Barack Obama, told CNN that recent hate crimes “should be a wake-up call to...

Immigration officials were not prepared this summer to manage the consequences of a “zero tolerance” policy at the Southwest border, which resulted in the separation of nearly 3,000 children from their parents, Homeland Security’s watchdog said in a report made public on Tuesday. The resulting confusion along the border led to misinformation among separated parents who did not know why...

A lawyer for young migrant children at a Florida detention center says her clients, one as young as 3 years old, are traumatized by the forcible separation from family members. WTVJ’s Marissa Bagg reports.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended the practice of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that her department is merely following laws. Speaking at a White House briefing Monday, Nielsen said the issue has been growing for years, the product of loopholes that have created an open border.

The man wanted in connection with a raid that turned up large amounts of drugs and guns at a Bronx home Tuesday has been located, law enforcement sources say.

The man wanted in connection with a raid that turned up large amounts of drugs and guns at a Bronx home has been located, law enforcement sources say. Ray Villeda reports.