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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks with reporters on the steps at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Homeland Security shutdown ends hours before workers would have gone without pay again

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

The Norwegian Encore cruise ship is docked at the Port of Miami on Thursday, March 26, 2020, in Miami, Fla. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald via AP)

Cruise passengers stranded on San Francisco ship for nearly 9 hours in customs ‘nightmare’

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., watches before Britain's King Charles III arrives to speak to a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

House votes to end Homeland Security shutdown with bill funding most agencies

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., holds a news conference about the budget process that Republicans hope will fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump calls on Schumer to apologize for ripping Border Patrol, ICE

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks about Virginia's redistricting vote as Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., right, looks on, at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Jeffries: House Democrats are united against GOP immigration reconciliation push

By Mary McCue Bell and Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

FILE - A federal agent wears a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Stop holding border enforcement hostage

By Chuck Flint

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., left, speaks with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., during a dinner for Republican senators in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, July 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Senate GOP budget blueprint calls for up to $70 billion in new immigration enforcement funding

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents patrol LaGuardia Airport in New York as a long line of people waits to go through TSA screening on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Senate Republicans begin debate on budget plan for $70 billion boost to immigration enforcement

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Todd Lyons, acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs. Enforcement (ICE), is interviewed on TV on the White House grounds, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

ICE has ‘surplus’ of detention beds, and border wall is ahead of schedule

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters outside the chamber after passing a measure by unanimous consent that would fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, if the House agrees, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

End of shutdown in sight: Senate passes DHS funding bill minus money for ICE, Border Patrol

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

After a deal was approved to fund the Department of Homeland Security, except for immigration operations, members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, including Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., left, and Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., center, tell reporters that they won't vote in the House to pass it as is, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP passes 8-week Homeland Security funding; shutdown continues with rejection of Senate bill

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Officers with the Department of Homeland Security walk on the sidewalk outside the Eldon B. Mahon U.S. Courthouse during a trial for nine people connected to a 2025 shooting outside an ICE detention facility, in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Democrats dispute GOP claim that they added new demands in DHS funding negotiations

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

A customs agent wears a patch for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Oct. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) **FILE**

As Trump closes the border, unauthorized migrants surge at U.S. airports

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

US border agency releases report on use of force

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

DHS and its Customs and Border Protection agency have deployed drones to assist local law enforcement and other federal agencies on several occasions.

Homeland Security increasingly lending drones to local police

By Kimberly Dvorak - Washington Guardian

Rep. Lamar Smith (Associated Press)

Secret report: Catch and release for low-priority illegals proposed

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times