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Byline: Michael Hotard;David D. Laitin In November, the Department of Homeland Security proposed increasing fees for all immigrants' applications or requests, including a 61 percent hike in the fee for [...]

Byline: J. Larry Brown J. Larry Brown is president of Chances for Children International. He served on the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health and Tufts Medical School. [...]

Byline: Luz Lazo Americans will have an extra year to obtain a Real ID driver's license or identification card, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday. Now the new deadline [...]

Byline: Joseph Marks;Lisa Rein Hundreds of thousands of federal workers and congressional staff may soon be asked to work remotely full time as the coronavirus spreads, putting reams of sensitive [...]

Byline: Joseph Marks With Tonya Riley THE KEY As coronavirus infections mount, the federal government is preparing for an unprecedented experiment in remote working that brings with it a slew [...]

Byline: Joe Davidson Just as the presidential primary season began, a government watchdog warned the Trump administration that it 'urgently needed' to address problems with election security infrastructure. The Cybersecurity [...]

Byline: Abigail Hauslohner The Trump administration could soon begin collecting DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of migrants apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border, including legal asylum seekers, under a new [...]

Byline: Joseph Marks THE KEY The scenario election officials feared -- Russians hacking the vote -- did not come to be on Super Tuesday. But the mega-primary day was bedeviled [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti;Kevin Sieff;Nick Miroff A federal appeals court in California halted the Trump administration's 'Remain in Mexico' asylum policy on Friday, removing one of the key tools the president [...]

Byline: Joseph Marks THE KEY Americans should not be confident about the security of the 2020 election, according to a slim majority of experts surveyed by The Cybersecurity 202. The [...]

Byline: Luz Lazo The Department of Homeland Security will allow states to accept documents for Real ID applications electronically, streamlining the process for millions of Americans to obtain the credential [...]

Byline: Editorial Board MORE THAN 5 million Americans are enrolled in Global Entry, the federal program that provides fast-track privileges for preapproved, low-risk travelers returning to the United States from [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff Trump administration officials plan to announce Friday that they have completed 100 miles of new barriers along the border with Mexico, but their benchmark underscores how far [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff Trump administration officials plan to announce Friday that they have completed 100 miles of new barriers along the border with Mexico, but their benchmark underscores how far [...]

Byline: Arelis R. Hernández;Nick Miroff;Maria Sacchetti TUCSON -- Concerned about the rising number of migrant families crossing from Mexico into the Arizona desert, Department of Homeland Security officials are preparing [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff The Trump administration is preparing to finalize an agreement this week to begin sending asylum seekers from the U.S. border to Guatemala, implementing a deal the two [...]

Byline: Joseph Marks THE KEY Illinois was ground zero for Moscow's election interference efforts in 2016 when Russian hackers compromised a voter registration database managed by the state board of [...]

Byline: Joseph Marks THE KEY The U.S. government is currently seeing warning signs of cyberattacks on industrial control systems that could cause massive financial damage or loss of life -- [...]

Byline: Spencer S. Hsu A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dramatically expanding its power to deport migrants who have illegally entered the United States in the past [...]

Byline: Abigail Hauslohner Ailing grandmothers, spouses and the toddlers of U.S. citizens are still being blocked from entering the United States under a travel ban that President Trump first imposed [...]

Byline: Editorial Board TEN YEARS ago, a Department of Homeland Security report on resurgent right-wing extremism provoked political furor that ultimately gutted the agency's efforts to take on the threat. [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff LAREDO, Tex. -- The acting heads of the nation's immigration agencies arrived here Tuesday to visit a makeshift courthouse, built from tents and shipping containers, where the [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin The Civil Rights and Civil Liberties subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday on the administration's decision, since reversed, to deny nonmilitary deferred action [...]

Byline: David Nakamura;Josh Dawsey Staffers at the Department of Homeland Security were at work on the response to Hurricane Dorian this week when their boss, acting secretary Kevin McAleenan, popped [...]

Byline: Felicia Sonmez;Maria Sacchetti The Trump administration is transferring hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster relief funding to boost U.S.-Mexico border enforcement, prompting an outcry from congressional Democrats who [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti The Trump administration is moving to terminate a federal court settlement restricting how long U.S. officials can detain migrant children with their parents and replace it with [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman;Greg Sargent Much of the Trump administration's efforts fit into a long-standing Republican agenda: Cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations, attack abortion rights, relieve polluters of the [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff;Arelis R. Hernández;Kevin Sieff The Trump administration decreed broad changes to U.S. asylum policies Monday, a move aimed at slowing the influx of Central Americans who are crossing [...]

Byline: Tim Carman The national restaurant industry is bracing for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that could round up hundreds of migrant families that have received deportation orders. [...]

Byline: Deanna Paul;Nick Miroff United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Monday that she is 'appalled by the conditions' being forced upon migrants after they cross the [...]

Byline: Robert Moore;Maria Sacchetti A Guatemalan toddler who spent several days in Border Patrol custody this spring died of complications related to 'multiple intestinal and respiratory infectious diseases,' according to [...]

Byline: Annie L. Owens This spring, camouflaged men armed with AR-15s patrolled America's border with Mexico, searching for undocumented immigrants crossing into the United States. Identifying themselves as 'Border Patrol' [...]

Byline: Eli Rosenberg;Robert Moore;Mike DeBonis;Katie Mettler EL PASO -- Federal officials are investigating whether agents participated in a private Facebook group for Border Patrol employees that hosted racist, sexist and [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff;Maria Sacchetti The Department of Homeland Security projects that arrests of migrants along the southern border will fall 25 percent this month, a drop that authorities attribute to [...]

Byline: Salvador Rizzo 'The vast majority never show up for their hearing, you know, a year, 18 months, down the road.' -- Vice President Pence, in an interview on CBS's [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent;Paul Waldman Earlier this week, President Trump made a dramatic claim, saying that 'next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff MCALLEN, Tex. -- The chain-link fence holding pens of the Border Patrol's largest processing center was stuffed with more than 2,000 people when the first ladies of [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff President Trump has directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct a mass roundup of migrant families that have received deportation orders, an operation that is [...]

Byline: Salvador Rizzo 'Not only does this legislation fail to address our broken immigration system as a whole, H.R. 6 includes provisions that would threaten public safety by making illegal [...]

Byline: Editorial Board SINCE IT became clear that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 presidential election, intelligence officials have warned regularly that the United States remains vulnerable to another [...]

Byline: Luz Lazo Come fall 2020, every U.S. air traveler will be required to present a Real ID-compliant license, or another acceptable form of identification such as a U.S. passport, [...]

Byline: Abigail Hauslohner An outbreak of the mumps virus in the U.S. government's crowded immigration detention facilities is adding a new strain to a system that the secretary of homeland [...]

Byline: Paul Sonne Acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan has approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security to construct temporary tent housing facilities for 7,500 adult migrants to alleviate [...]

Byline: Felicia Sonmez Acting homeland security secretary Kevin McAleenan acknowledged Sunday that the Trump administration had considered sending migrants from Texas to Florida but ultimately decided not to because it [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff;Josh Dawsey In the weeks before they were ousted last month, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and top immigration enforcement official Ronald Vitiello challenged a secret White House [...]

Byline: Nara Milanich The portable contraption is not much bigger than a toaster oven. Pop in the cheek swabs, and in just 90 minutes it can determine whether two people [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan Pentagon officials are considering a new request for military assistance along the southern border, a defense official said Monday, after the Department of Homeland Security asked for [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff Overcrowding at Border Patrol stations in South Texas has become so acute in recent days that U.S. authorities have taken the rare step of using aircraft to [...]

Byline: Salvador Rizzo 'Last month alone, 100,000 illegal immigrants arrived at our borders, placing a massive strain on communities and schools and hospitals and public resources like nobody's ever seen [...]