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Migrants line up after being detained by U.S. authorities at the US-Mexico border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Sunday, April 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Christian Chávez)

Homeland Security bused migrants away to hide border chaos

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

BART Police Officer Eric Hofstein displays the fentanyl he confiscated while patrolling the Civic Center Station BART platform in San Francisco, Calif. Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (Jessica Christian /San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Sen. Chris Murphy says Congress should approve nearly $1B for fentanyl fight

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A six-story glass facade building (second from left) is believed to be the site of a foreign police outpost for China in New York's Chinatown on Monday April 17, 2023. Justice Department officials say two men have been arrested on charges that they helped establish a secret police outpost in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) **FILE**

Second House panel investigating China’s U.S. police stations

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Migrants wait along a border wall Aug. 23, 2022, after crossing from Mexico near Yuma, Ariz. President Joe Biden's administration announced in early January that it would admit up to 30,000 people a month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela for two years with authorization to work when they apply online. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas argues that the new rules are designed to weaken cartels who help migrants cross into the U.S. illegally. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Congress should stop funding the Biden administration’s open-borders

By RJ Hauman and Erin Dwinell

President Joe Biden speaks at the Department of Homeland Security's 20th anniversary ceremony in Washington, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden hails record of DHS service on 20th anniversary of post-9/11 department

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration on fighting drug cartels by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Time to declare war on Mexican drug cartels

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and T. Michael Andrews

FILE - The third flight with evacuated citizens from Afghanistan arrives at the International Airport in Tirana, Albania, early Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. A group of people evacuated from Afghanistan as the Taliban returned to power last year have held a protest Wednesday, June 1, 2022 in Albania over the failure to expedite their move to the United States. A small group of families in a resort town located 45 miles northwest of Albania’s capital, Tirana, called on the U.S. to speed up the process of their transfer.(AP Photo/Franc Zhurda, file)

Poorly vetted Afghan evacuees pose national security risk

By James Bowen

Latest ‘Twitter Files’ reveal flood of FBI emails, back channel tools used by feds to censor posts

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, speaks during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on threats to the homeland on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

DHS is hiding origins of disinformation board, GOP senators charge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building headquarters is seen in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

‘Twitter Files’ fuel suspicions that FBI tipped the scales for Biden in 2020

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A sample copy of a Washington drivers license is shown at the Washington state Dept. of Licensing office in Lacey, Wash., Friday, June 22, 2018. Some Washington licenses and identification cards will soon be marked with the words &quot;federal limits apply&quot; as the state moves to comply with a federal law that increased rules for identification needed at airports and federal facilities. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

REAL ID deadline pushed back again, Homeland Security mandate kicks in May 2025

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrest an immigrant considered a threat to public safety and national security during an early morning raid in Compton, Calif., Monday, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) ** FILE **

Biden racks up multiple records in chaotic year at border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 23, 2016 photo three small bundles of fiber optics, each containing 12 fiber strands, are unraveled for testing after the cable was brought to shore in Haines, Alaska, for the Alaska Power and Telephone Company. The fibers are protected within a copper tube surrounded by multiple layers of steel. The cable is the first fiber-optic link between Juneau and the northern end of Lynn Canal and the first significant undersea fiber link constructed by AP&amp;T. When it begins operating in mid-October, it will bring faster, more reliable internet service to Haines and Skagway, and possibly to Juneau and the Yukon. (Michael Penn /The Juneau Empire via AP)

Threat to undersea cable in Hawaii highlights danger of future internet disruptions

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Migrants wave as a bus leaves to take them to a refugee center outside Union Station in Chicago, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Chicago officials say 75 immigrants have arrived in the city on buses from Texas, as part of an aggressive border policy by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Mayor Lori Lightfoot's office confirmed that the migrants arrived Wednesday night and that the city has welcomed them and will make sure they receive shelter and food. (Anthony Vazquez /Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Biden administration trounces Texas, Arizona in battle of busing, flying migrants across U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pauses during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

RIP Biden’s disinformation board: Mayorkas puts the final nail in the coffin

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Members of the U.S. Secret Service Counter Assault Team walk through the Rotunda as they and other federal police forces responded as violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. Top congressional Democrats are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general hand over information on deleted Secret Service text messages related to the Jan. 6, 2012 attack on the Capitol, accusing him of using delay tactics to stonewall their investigation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Dems up pressure on DHS inspector general to produce missing Secret Service texts

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Migrants stand next to the border wall as they wait to get taken away by the Border Patrol in Eagle Pass, Texas, Saturday, May 21, 2022. The Eagle Pass area has become increasingly a popular crossing corridor for migrants, especially those from outside Mexico and Central America, under Title 42 authority, which expels migrants without a chance to seek asylum on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) ** FILE **

Justices say DHS has power to end Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a Senate Appropriations - Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Department of Homeland Security paused the work of its new disinformation governance board Wednesday. The move responds to weeks of criticism from Republicans and questions about whether the board would impinge on Americans’ free speech rights. A statement says DHS’ advisory board on homeland security will review the board’s work. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) **FILE**

Ill-fated DHS disinformation board pursued partnership with social media platforms to censor content

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An abortion rights demonstrator chains himself by the neck to an anti-scaling fence as he protests Monday, June 6, 2022, outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Terror alert: Anger over U.S.-Mexico border, abortion case could lead to shootings, DHS warns

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the final passage of a measure to create domestic terrorism units in the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Senate GOP blocks Dems’ domestic terrorism bill, warn it threatened to target left’s political foes

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times