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News Articles: Department of Homeland Security

A worker works on the roofing structure of new home under construction, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Richardson, Texas.

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  • Business

ICE is sending a chill through the construction industry

The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse.

November 06, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Over the past year, many<strong> </strong>federal law enforcement agents conducting immigration arrests have been concealing their faces under masks, and vehicles being used in what appear to be immigration-related arrests do not have license plates.

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  • Investigations

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests

Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

October 31, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner and
  • Ximena Bustillo
A corrections officer walks beside people holding candles, signs, and flowers during a vigil outside the Krome Detention Center in Miami in May 2025, protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and mass deportations.

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  • USPS

Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations

After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump administration ramps up ICE detention.

October 06, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaking at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in January 2025.

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  • Politics

A lawsuit tries to block the Trump administration's efforts to merge personal data

A class action lawsuit argues that the administration's efforts to combine databases of personal information on Americans violate privacy laws and the Constitution.

September 30, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
People arrive at an ICE recruitment job fair at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah, on Sept. 15.

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  • USPS

Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs

At a recent DHS career expo in Provo, Utah, many attendees hoped to get hired to help with the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

September 26, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Law enforcement and emergency personnel respond near the scene of a shooting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday. One detainee was killed and two others were wounded in the shooting.

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  • National

Shooting at ICE detention facility in Dallas kills 1 detainee, injures 2 others

Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting Wednesday at a federal immigration detention facility in Dallas. One detainee was killed in what the FBI says was an act "of targeted violence."

September 24, 2025
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By:
  • Russell Lewis and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference with immigration experts, DACA recipients and DREAMers to mark the 13th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in Washington, D.C., on June 11, 2025.

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  • USPS

Democrats push Homeland Security Department on DACA recipients

After the agency called on DACA recipients to self-deport, Democrats are asking for answers on how mass deportations are affecting the group of immigrants also known as 'DREAMers.'

September 03, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
In this handout photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, two federal law enforcement officers coordinate with other officials in February 2025 near Washington, D.C.

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  • USPS

ICE recruits former federal workers to join its ranks amid hiring spree

The push to rehire retired workers comes as the administration has also sought to downsize large swaths of the federal government through mass layoffs and other changes.

August 01, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
From an aerial view, the U.S.-Mexico border fence ends with a gap on Jan. 20, 2025 near Sasabe, Ariz. Republicans' tax and spending bill includes $46.5 billion for border wall projects.

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  • Politics

How Trump's tax cut and policy bill aims to 'supercharge' immigration enforcement

The bill includes a major federal investment for President Trump's mass deportation plans, while also limiting eligibility for some safety net programs based on immigration status.

July 04, 2025
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By:
  • Juliana Kim

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  • Politics

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system

The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

June 29, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block and
  • Miles Parks
Francisco Urizar celebrates his 64th birthday with his daughters Nancy (center) and Francis (right). Since her father was taken into Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody earlier in the week, Nancy has been frantically searching for clues about where, and why, he has been detained.

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  • USPS

One daughter's search for a father detained by ICE

Francisco Urizar, 64, was detained by ICE while on his work route delivering tortillas. His daughter Nancy is trying to find out what happened to him.

June 21, 2025
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By:
  • Liz Baker
Sen. Bill Cowsert

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  • Politics

Lawmakers Huddle: Athens lawmakers say it’s not a sanctuary jurisdiction

The Department of Homeland Security has officially removed its list of "sanctuary jurisdictions" from its website, which included six areas in Georgia. The designation has sparked confusion in some of the communities on the controversial list.  

June 06, 2025
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By:
  • Donna Lowry
Detainees board a plane chartered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at King County International Airport on April 15, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. Semi-regular flights carrying detainees pass through the airport as the Trump administration continues to plan for the expansion of immigrant detention and deportation.

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  • USPS

The White House is deporting people to countries they're not from. Why?

The administration argues the men's home countries won't take them — but lawyers say getting sent to a country like South Sudan could lead to more persecution.

June 01, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
A rally for pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil in New York in March. He's been detained in an immigration detention center in Louisiana as the government tries to deport him.

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  • USPS

Judge says Rubio 'likely' violated Constitution in ordering Mahmoud Khalil deported

But in a mixed ruling, federal Judge Michael Farbiarz declined, for now, to order Khalil released from immigration detention.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Adrian Florido
Hundreds gathered  in New York in March to protest the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who was arrested by federal immigration agents over his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University

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  • USPS

Mahmoud Khalil told a judge his deportation could be a death sentence. Here's why

Khalil's lawyers are trying to convince an immigration judge that if he's deported, Israel could target him over his advocacy for Palestinian rights.

May 24, 2025
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By:
  • Adrian Florido
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