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News Articles: Department of Homeland Security

Protesters in Macon’s Tattnall Square Park on the Sunday after the killing of Renee Macklin Good in in Minneapolis staged a small memorial for people killed by ICE during immigration enforcement over the last year. While there have been deaths in Georgia of people in ICE detention, there have been no arrest related deaths here.

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  • Law

How Georgia aids in the immigration push without fighting in the street

A now 2-year-old state law mandating Georgia law enforcement cooperate with ICE is likely why the state has been spared the federal presence in places like Minneapolis.

January 20, 2026
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A federal agent pushes the wife of the detained man from Ecuador to the ground on September 25, 2025 in New York City.

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  • USPS

ICE officer accused of excessive force, then sent back to work despite active probe

DHS's handling of the incident raises questions about the department's oversight mechanisms to investigate employee misconduct.

December 24, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Passengers from an international flight enter customs and immigration control at McCarran International Airport (now known as Harry Reid International Airport) in 2011. The Department of Homeland Security is proposing collecting social media information from tourists visiting the U.S. from countries that don't require a visa.

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  • Law

What's on your TikTok page? U.S. looks to scour tourists' online profiles

Foreign visitors who are eligible to bypass the visa application process may soon have to turn over five years' worth of social media history to enter the U.S., under a new Trump administration plan.

December 12, 2025
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
A woman clutches a U.S. flag as she and applicants from 20 countries prepare to take an oath of citizenship in commemoration of Independence Day during a naturalization ceremony in San Antonio in July 2025.

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  • USPS

How Trump is remaking one agency to aid his deportation push

The Trump administration's changes to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are taking an axe to the agency's traditional mission of ensuring people lawfully immigrate and stay in the U.S.

December 10, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Anthony Nel, of Texas, has been a U.S. citizen for more than a decade and a regular voter for the past nine years, but he was flagged as a potential noncitizen and removed from the voter rolls after he did not respond to a county notice within 30 days.

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  • Elections

Trump's SAVE tool is looking for noncitizen voters. But it's flagging U.S. citizens too

Anthony Nel, of Texas, became a U.S. citizen as a teen. But a flaw in a Trump administration citizenship tool flagged him as a potential noncitizen, which led to his voter registration being canceled.

December 10, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
Flames and smoke billow from buildings during mass Russian drones and missile strikes on Ukraine's capital in July 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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  • USPS

U.S. deports dozens of migrants to Ukraine amid war

Immigration lawyers say those deported to Ukraine could be conscripted to fight in the war, contrary to international laws that prohibit deportations to places where people could face violence.

November 18, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Polina Lytvynova
James Jones carries sandbags while trying to prevent water from running off a property scorched in the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., as the region remains under flash flood warnings on Saturday.

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  • National

FEMA acting chief David Richardson departs after 6 months on the job

The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has left his post, marking another disruption in a year of staff and policy changes. His leadership was questioned after he delayed responding to deadly floods in Texas.

November 17, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
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
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