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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas attends a briefing on the 2024 hurricane and wildfire outlook at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Friday, June 21, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

Taxpayers foot bill for Mayorkas’ generosity; employees given $2.6 billion in extra vacation time

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mexican immigrants who have been unable to obtain work permits after living and working for years or even decades in the U.S., meet with activist Nora Sandigo and journalists, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

DHS renews work permits for hundreds of thousands of migrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on President Biden's supplemental funding request, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Mayorkas changes tune on need for more border money after repeatedly seeking cuts

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Protesters gather outside of the Israeli Embassy in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Houston./Houston Chronicle via AP) **FILE**

Homeland Security at a loss to explain hiring of former PLO official for work on asylum cases

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden returns a salute as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, en route to California. (AP Photo/Jess Rapfogel)

Biden’s ‘parole’ program stretches immigration powers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Estela Lazo stands for a portrait with her two children, late Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. The Honduran family waits in the Mexican border city to have their case for asylum in the United States heard. As President Joe Biden undoes his predecessor's immigration policies that he considers inhumane, he faces a major question: How far should he go to right perceived wrongs? (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Taxpayers to foot bill for asylum claims from border surge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 12, 2021, photo, President Donald Trump tours a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Alamo, Texas. During the Trump administration's final weeks, the Department of Homeland Security quietly signed agreements with at least four states that threaten to temporarily derail President Joe Biden's efforts to undo his predecessor's immigration policies. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Andy Biggs challenges claim that Trump ‘gutted’ DHS

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this July 31, 2019, file photo, migrants return to Mexico, using the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses the Rio Grande river in Matamoros, Mexico, on the border with Brownsville, Texas. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel, File) **FILE**

DHS deletes deportation warning over fears of ‘undue stress’ to illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

About 50 immigrant workers, their families and supporters hold signs calling attention to the plight of the almost 700 poultry processing plant workers that were arrested in August, during a ICE raid, at a House Homeland Security Committee field hearing at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

DHS moves to block illegal immigrants awaiting deportation from getting work permits

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Erika Constantine, of North Attleboro, Mass., poses for a portrait on the front porch of her home, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in North Attleboro. Canadian-born Constantine spoke up during her naturalization ceremony after Federal immigration officials incorrectly told new U.S. citizens in Massachusetts that they couldn't vote in this year's general election because the state's registration deadline had passed before they took their citizenship oaths. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Feds wrongly tell new US citizens they missed chance to vote

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

In this June 26, 2020, file photo, U.S. District Judge Laurie Michelson administers the Oath of Citizenship to Ismael Gonzalez during a drive-thru naturalization service in a parking structure at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services headquarters on Detroit's east side. The ceremony is a way to continue working as the federal courthouse is shut down due to the novel coronavirus. The U.S. has resumed swearing in new citizens but the oath ceremonies aren't the same because of COVID-19 and a budget crisis at the citizenship agency threatens to stall them again. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

DHS’ citizenship agency cuts services to avert furlough

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 28, 2020, file photo, Ruth Aracely Monroy, right, rushes her son, Nahum Perla, left, to school from their home on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico. They were among the first sent back to Mexico under a Trump administration policy that dramatically reshaped the scene at the U.S.-Mexico border by returning migrants to Mexico to wait out their U.S. asylum process. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

DHS to take more time processing asylum work permits

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 16, 2019, file photo a citizen candidate holds an American flag and the words to The Star-Spangled Banner before the start of a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Miami field office in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) ** FILE **

DHS to relax coronavirus rules, start swearing in new citizens again

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 16, 2019, file photo a citizen candidate holds an American flag and the words to The Star-Spangled Banner before the start of a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Miami field office in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) ** FILE **

Citizenship agency faces ‘drastic’ coronavirus cash crunch, begs Congress for $1.2 billion

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in Phoenix is seen here on Aug. 5, 2008. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

DHS suspends asylum interviews, citizenship ceremonies amid coronavirus crisis

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

“The goal is to make sure that people who are granted long-term status, legal permanent residence status, can stand on their own two feet. And get back to that American tradition that has been in law for over 140 years,"  Acting head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli said. (Associated Press photograph)

Ken Cuccinelli unlawfully appointed USCIS chief, judge rules

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Public charge’ rule takes effect Feb. 24, DHS says

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A migrant leans on a fence of the Gateway International Bridge that connects downtown Matamoros, Mexico with Brownsville, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Migrants wanting to request asylum camped out on the international bridge leading from Mexico into Brownsville, Texas, causing a closure of the span. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

DHS moves to cut off asylum seekers’ work permits

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli talks during a walk through of the Migration Protection Protocols Immigration Hearing Facility, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in Laredo, Texas. Cuccinelli is emerging as the public face of the president’s hard-line immigration policies. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Cuccinelli emerging as Trump’s leading voice on immigration

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Feds reverse decision ending immigrant medical relief

By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press