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Guatemalan migrants who were deported from the U.S. deplane at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, May 11, 2023. Mexico is flying migrants south away from the U.S. border and busing new arrivals away from its boundary with Guatemala to relieve pressure on its border cities. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy, File)

DHS seeking quick restart of fraud-filled ‘parole’ program for migrants, calls for volunteers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants line up at the U.S. border wall after being detained by U.S. immigration authorities, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) ** FILE **

As House starts Mayorkas impeachment, DHS blasts process as motivated by politics

By Stephen Dinan - 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 **

Feds shut down bizarre immigration fraud that involved staged armed robberies

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants sit in a queue outside The Roosevelt Hotel that is being used by the city as temporary housing, July 31, 2023, in New York. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott arrived in New York City to chat, Wednesday, Sept. 27, about the border crisis and the influx of migrants that has brought chaos to the city. He says he began busing migrants to New York and other cities to alleviate the pressure on border towns in his state. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

Immigrants strain communities nationwide; cross-section shows destinations, parole violations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An immigration official stops a group of migrants from Central America as they walk on a road after they crossed the Texas-Mexico border, Friday, May 12, 2023, in Fronton, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ** FILE **

DHS says border ‘is working as intended’ after Title 42

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants, many from Central American and Venezuela, walk along the Huehuetan highway in Chiapas state, Mexico, early Tuesday, June 7, 2022. The group left Tapachula on Monday, tired of waiting to normalize their status in a region with little work and still far from their ultimate goal of reaching the United States. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Border Patrol agents poke holes in DHS’ new border policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A migrant family from Venezuela walks to a Border Patrol transport vehicle after they and other migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and turned themselves in June 16, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. The Biden administration has agreed to accept up to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants, similar to how Ukrainians have been admitted after Russia’s invasion, while Mexico has agreed to accept some Venezuelans who are expelled from the United States, the two nations said Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

DHS to start blocking some Venezuelans at border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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Biden disinformation board czar blames disinformation for its demise

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Migrants released by the Border Patrol with notices to appear in court on Feb. 5, 2022, in Somerton, Ariz., wait for COVID-19 testing at a Regional Center for Border Health warehouse before being taken by charter bus to the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Records obtained by The Associated Press show COVID-19 infection rates have plummeted among migrants crossing the border from Mexico as the Biden administration faces a critical decision whether to extend sweeping restrictions on asylum. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat) **FILE**

ICE to release 600,000 illegal immigrants by September

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this May 25, 2021, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks with the media outside of the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami. Federal immigration agents will stop making mass worksite arrest of immigrants employees suspected of living in the U.S. without legal permission. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued guidance Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, saying the agency would cease such targeted enforcement which has "not focused on the most pernicious aspect of our country's unauthorized employment challenge: exploitative employers." (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

EXCLUSIVE: DHS drafts plan to allow fraudsters to keep citizenship

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, file photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Arizona, to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

House Dems target Trump legacy in Homeland Security spending bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, photo, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf is sworn in before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A federal judge on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, halted major fee increases for citizenship and other immigration benefits three days before they were to take effect, saying the last two chiefs of the Homeland Security Department, including Wolf, were likely appointed illegally. (Shawn Thew/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Chad Wolf, Trump pick for DHS secretary, gets first approval from Senate Homeland Security Committee

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 17, 2020 file photo, a TSA worker, right, checks a passenger before entering a security screening at Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Fla. A high-ranking Transportation Security Administration official says the agency is falling short when it comes to protecting airport screeners and the public from the new coronavirus, according to published reports. A federal office that handles whistleblower complaints has ordered an investigation. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

TSA insider faults agency’s response to coronavirus

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

Correction: Homeland Security Secretary story

By JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this Feb.19, 2019, file photo, children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

DHS official defends conditions at Border Patrol stations

Associated Press

Correction: Russia Probe-Florida Voting story

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly (left) speaks as Chief of United States Border Patrol Ronald Vitiello, right, looks on during a meeting held at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego on Feb. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, Pool) **FILE**

Nearly half of DHS uniforms bought south of the border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 photo, Renee Phifer, Rockdale County board of elections assistant director, left, demonstrates a new voting machine at a polling site to Kelly Monroe, investigator with the Georgia secretary of state office in Conyers, Ga. Last summer, a security expert came across a gaping hole in Georgia's election management system. The revelation prompted a lawsuit seeking to compel Georgia to toss all of its touchscreen voting machines and replace them with a system that provides a paper record of every ballot cast. Georgia is one of five states where no such record exists. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Local voting districts seen as crucial to election security

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY - Associated Press

As many as 5.7 million noncitizens may have voted in the 2008 election, which put Barack Obama in the White House, according to research organization Just Facts, (Associated Press/File)

Illegal immigrants who vote not tracked

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The sanctions issued Tuesday by the Trump administration mark a major increase in pressure on countries that refuse to take back their deportees. (Associated Press/File)

Millions targeted for possible deportation under Trump rules

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press