Nick Miroff

The Biden administration has forced out the head of the U.S. Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, clearing a path for a leadership overhaul at an agency whose top officials were broadly sympathetic to President Trump.

Nearly 1,000 people per day are sneaking into the United States without being identified or taken into custody because U.S. border agents are busy attending to migrant families and unaccompanied children, according to three U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials familiar with the data.

Biden administration officials said Friday they do not have the ability to quickly add thousands of shelter beds to care for the record numbers of migrant teens and children stuck in crowded Border Patrol stations.

The Trump administration has capped the number of refugees it will admit into the United States at 15,000 during the next year.

Tommy Fisher turned his North Dakota company into a federal contracting powerhouse after showcasing his techniques with private border wall projects on private land.

Legal analysts say that while the department has broad authority to enforce federal laws, officers’ actions seemed to be pushing the boundaries and pulling DHS into a domestic policing role.

Administration to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to use high-tech detection system at same time it spends billions on an actual concrete-and-steel wall.

The White House on Monday blocked the entry of several categories of foreign workers in a new presidential proclamation that will extend through the end of 2020.

Despite Trump’s statement, Kevin McAleenan remains at DHS in acting leadership role, officials say.

The accord shows willingness by the Trump administration to send people to places that are known to be dangerous.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics released Wednesday show that more than 144,000 migrants were taken into custody, a 32% jump from April.

One of the most difficult jobs in Washington now belongs to Kevin McAleenan after the ouster of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday.

Unauthorized migration in fiscal 2019 is on pace to reach its highest level in a decade, perhaps spurred by the publicity surrounding the Trump administration’s attempt to deter families by separating children from their parents.

The death of Jakelin Caal, 7, has put scrutiny on the surge of migrant families in U.S. custody like no other recent event.