Author: Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner

Just hours before President Donald Trump was set to arrive in his hometown of New York City for the National Basketball Association finals, White House border czar Tom Homan issued a pointed warning aimed at illegal immigrants across the five boroughs: immigration enforcement is coming. The administration’s chief immigration official stated on Monday that the…

White House border czar Tom Homan has warned that the Trump administration may take legal action in order to “force-feed” illegal immigrants at a New Jersey detention center who are five days into a hunger strike. “Hunger strikes never work,” Homan told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday evening. “We’re not going to change…

The federal government will soon require U.S. banks to consider the citizenship of customers, the latest move in the Trump administration’s efforts to impose financial restrictions and digitally track illegal immigrants in the United States. President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week that adds to the long list of actions the White House…

EXCLUSIVE — Arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants have soared to all-time highs in President Donald Trump’s second term, but the administration has faced significant hurdles maintaining its momentum in recent months, according to White House border czar Tom Homan, prompting some concerns from Trump’s base that his administration is abandoning promised mass deportations. Approximately 641,000…

PHOENIX — Officials at the Departments of Homeland Security and War are gravely concerned about the security of the nation’s skies along the land border and have admitted that the airspace is incredibly easy to penetrate from Canada and Mexico. Recent and continuing major improvements in infrastructure at the U.S.-Mexico border have already begun to push…

Asylum grant rates have plummeted to historic lows since President Donald Trump took office, and those figures continue to fall as the administration takes a wrecking ball to the immigration courts. The Trump administration has found a legal way to ensure that asylum claims by immigrants who illegally entered the United States are largely denied,…

The Trump administration’s newest Cabinet secretary, Markwayne Mullin, has already begun to implement major changes across the Department of Homeland Security  Mullin replaced President Donald Trump’s first DHS secretary, Kristi Noem, and was an unexpected pick to lead the department given his lack of background on related issues.  However, in his two weeks atop the…

The Department of Homeland Security funding lapse is negatively affecting national security operations, and congressional Democrats are facing growing pressure to approve government funding amid the fallout. DHS has operated without funding since Feb. 14, after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on reforms to immigration enforcement policies included in the funding package.  Two weeks into the…

A federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden upheld a restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security after the Trump administration attempted to ban members of Congress from visiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention sites with less than a week’s notice. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb of the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday…