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In this June 16, 2018, photo, American Airlines aircrafts are seen at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas. American Airlines says it asked the Trump administration not to put migrant children who have been separated from their parents on its flights. In a statement Wednesday, June 20, American said it doesn't know whether any migrant children have been on its flights and doesn't want to profit from the current immigration policy of separating families. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

American Airlines, United Airlines want no part of enforcing Trump’s family separation policy

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Protesters of a travel ban gather in Union Square, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in New York. A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban takes effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Donald Trump’s travel ban was chaos, disastrously implemented, inspector general finds

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security now says Wisconsin elections not targeted

By SCOTT BAUER - Associated Press

Pedestrians crossing from Mexico into the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry wait in line in San Diego on Dec. 10, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

ICE, CBP wrongly using taxpayer-funded security, ‘fleet’ of vehicles: Audit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump poses for a portrait in the Oval Office in Washington in this Friday, April 21, 2017, file photo. Trump will mark the end of his first 100 days in office with a flurry of executive orders as he looks to fulfill campaign promises and rack up victories ahead of that milestone. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Donald Trump hits four countries with visa sanctions for refusing to accept criminals

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illegal immigration spikes in July; still lower than Obama years

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina has put a "hold" on Lee Francis Cissna, the nominee for director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to try to pressure Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly to bend to the senator's will and quickly approve thousands of H-2B visas. (Associated Press/File)

Thom Tillis puts hold on nomination over H-2B visas

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now called the Islamic State group, marching in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant Website via AP, File)

Lisa Monaco, W.H. counterterrorism adviser: Islamic State a ‘brutal terrorist group’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

A health worker, center, takes the temperature of people to see if they might be infected by the Ebola virus inside the Ignace Deen government hospital in Conakry, Guinea, Friday March 18, 2016. The World Health Organization deployed specialists to southeast Guinea on Friday after two new Ebola cases were confirmed. The cases were announced just hours after Sierra Leone heralded the end of its recent Ebola flare-up, again dashing hopes that the deadly disease was gone from West Africa. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

DHS: Foreign nationals from Ebola-affected countries can stay 6 more months

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The Golden Hammer.

Golden Hammer: Homeland Security loses track of training money

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

"The bottom line of all this is, in recent years the total number of those who attempt to illegally cross our southwest border has declined dramatically, while the percentage of those who are apprehended has gone up," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said. "Put simply, it's now much harder to cross our border illegally and evade capture than it used to be — and people know that." (Associated Press)

Jeh Johnson: Illegal immigration lowest since 1972

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Those responsible for border security are frustrated with memos from the Obama administration directing illegal immigrants to submit complaints if they feel they were treated contrary to amnesty guidelines. (Associated Press)

Homeland Security sets up Obama amnesty complaint hotlines for illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A group of illegal immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas, June 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

House Homeland Security chairman eyes spy blimps to seal U.S. border

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

FILE - This June 18, 2014, file photo, detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection, processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. Immigration courts backlogged by years of staffing shortages and tougher enforcement face an even more daunting challenge since tens of thousands of Central Americans began arriving on the U.S. border fleeing violence back home. For years, children from Central America traveling alone and immigrants who prove they have a credible fear of returning home have been entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool, File)

Overwhelmed feds putting illegal immigrant children at risk

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Ohio Homeland Security unveils phone safety app

Associated Press

Oklahoma agencies aim to dismantle criminal groups

By BAILEY ELISE McBRIDE - Associated Press

In a letter to the Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson, Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, said that not only is the border insecure but that it is patrolled ineffectively. (Associated Press)

McCain slams way border is patrolled

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

New allegations over the EB-5 program, which has snagged one nomination to the Homeland Security Department, now threatens to embroil Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senator’s memo shows Iran links in Homeland Security’s troubled immigration program

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Department of Homeland Security police officers keep an eye on planes at Los Angeles International Airport. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Negotiators skirt customs, make flights easier from UAE to U.S.

By Jeffrey Anderson and Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican (Associated Press)

Homeland Security at risk of computer breach

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times