The US Senate has approved a funding package to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents and most Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operations, but left out immigration enforcement funding at the center of a prolonged political standoff.

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he would appoint Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) as the next Homeland Security Secretary, while moving current DHS chief Kristi Noem to a special envoy position focused on Western Hemisphere cooperation due to mounting frustrations with her leadership.

Elmina Aghayeva, a Columbia University student and online influencer, has been released from federal custody following an arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who were accused of misrepresenting themselves.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced plans to recommend a travel ban on multiple countries, citing concerns that they are “flooding” the United States with criminal activity. Noem shared the plan on social media Monday, saying she had met President Donald Trump and would suggest “a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a full investigation into the Department of Homeland Security’s reported $172 million purchase of two Gulfstream private jets for Secretary Kristi Noem and other senior officials.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Friday that the federal government has awarded 10 construction contracts worth $4.5 billion to extend barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border by 230 miles.

The United States has deported five men described as “barbaric” criminals to the small African kingdom of Eswatini, expanding the Trump administration’s controversial third-country deportation program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed Tuesday.

A deportation flight carrying immigrants from various nations that refused to accept their citizens has landed in Eswatini, Southern Africa, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday.

The Trump administration has resumed its controversial policy of deporting migrants to third countries, nations other than their country of origin, with a flight on Tuesday that sent five individuals to the small African nation of Eswatini, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials confirmed.

A man wearing tactical gear and armed with a rifle was shot dead by police on Monday morning after he opened fire at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).