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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks with NPR's Morning Edition Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at the department's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Is Biden's border plan working? Here's how the top immigration official says it is

5:53am May 10, 2024

by Obed Manuel

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sat with Morning Edition to discuss the president's approach to migrant arrivals and where he feels the strategy has worked.

Passengers at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas will be the first to use the new system, which has been compared to the self-checkout at a grocery store.

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TSA unveils a prototype self-service airport checkpoint security screening system

6:45pm March 07, 2024

by Diba Mohtasham

Passengers at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas will be the first to use a new prototype airport security system, which has been compared to the self-checkout at a grocery store.

A family of five who said they were from Guatemala and a man in a pink shirt from Peru walk through the desert after crossing in the Tucson Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border last month.

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Despite efforts of 3 U.S. administrations, migrant families keep crossing the border

8:17am September 23, 2023

by Joel Rose

Immigration authorities arrested more families in August than in any month on record. U.S. officials have long grappled with discouraging families from coming — and found there are no easy solutions.

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Immigrants await processing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Adelanto, California. By filing a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, NPR obtained a trove of inspection reports detailing serious problems at this ICE facility and others across the United States.

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Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention

1:31pm August 16, 2023

by Tom Dreisbach

Inspectors for the Department of Homeland Security found dangerous problems in immigration detention facilities. For years, the government fought NPR's efforts to obtain its often damning reports.

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Nina Jankowicz resigned as head of the Disinformation Governance Board at DHS after relentless attacks from conservatives. DHS has put the board on pause.

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She joined DHS to fight disinformation. She says she was halted by... disinformation

5:00am May 21, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Nina Jankowicz looks back at how exaggerations and falsehoods stoked so many doubts about the Disinformation Governance Board that DHS paused it after just three weeks.

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A group within the Department of Homeland Security focused on combating disinformation has been paused.

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DHS pauses a board created to combat disinformation amid a campaign to discredit it

5:11pm May 18, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it would pause the work of a board created to combat disinformation. The board — and its leader — faced an online campaign to discredit its work.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

DHS Secretary Mayorkas faces a partisan divide over Title 42 in Capitol Hill hearings

12:50pm April 28, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday, where he's facing another heated round of questioning on Title 42.

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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Friday that Cameroon would be granted Temporary Protected Status for 18 months.

The U.S. designates Temporary Protected Status to Cameroon for 18 months

5:57pm April 16, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

The designation comes amid extreme violence between Cameroon's forces and separatists as well as a significant rise in attacks from Boko Haram, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The next challenge for Afghan refugees is finding affordable housing and jobs

4:13pm February 25, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

Afghan refugees have left their first destination in the U.S.: military bases. Now they're resettling in communities around the country. But finding affordable housing makes the transition difficult.

Truckers are planning a potential protest outside the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Feb 13., the day of the Super Bowl, according to a memo from the Department of Homeland Security.

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Truckers may try to disrupt Super Bowl and the State of the Union, DHS memo says

6:03pm February 10, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

A Department of Homeland Security memo says truckers protesting vaccine requirements are planning a potential disruption at the Super Bowl in Los Angeles and the State of the Union in Washington, D.C.