Author: Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner

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…

President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation is expected to ramp up in 2026 as newly hired military lawyers-turned-immigration judges hit the bench and begin expeditiously reviewing a massive backlog of cases. Speeding up the court process for immigration matters will, in turn, lead to faster decisions and more deportations, according to former immigration judge Andrew…

House lawmakers on Tuesday will get their first opportunity since President Donald Trump took office to question Department of Homeland Security agency leaders about the White House’s illegal immigrant deportation operation. The leaders of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will testify before the House Homeland…

MINNEAPOLIS — Within hours of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s announcement on Monday that White House border czar Tom Homan would be the point man for immigration operations in Minnesota, Homan and two other top homeland security officials were on the ground in what had become an embattled city, beginning to work on a comeback…

MINNEAPOLIS — The top White House official handling negotiations with Minnesota officials about Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s presence in the state said “great progress” has been made during talks this week, and federal agencies are now working on a “drawdown” plan. “I have staff from CBP and from ICE working on a drawdown plan,” White House…

Republicans and the Trump administration are pushing for the denaturalization of any immigrant-turned United States citizen who is found to have stolen U.S. tax dollars and fraudulently obtained Minnesota welfare funds. Somali immigrants have been accused of orchestrating a successful billion-dollar fraud ring that siphoned large sums of money from the U.S. government intended for…

EXCLUSIVE — Border Patrol agents spent much of 2025 enforcing immigration laws inside the United States, far from the nation’s borders with Canada and Mexico. Michael Banks, the Border Patrol’s national chief, told the Washington Examiner that the public can expect to continue seeing an unprecedented level of cooperation between Border Patrol and the Department…

EXCLUSIVE — The Trump administration will soon install 900 miles of buoy barrier at the United States-Mexico border, marking the first time the U.S. government has used a water-based defense system to stop illegal immigration, the Border Patrol’s national chief told the Washington Examiner. Construction teams will start dropping the red-orange floating devices in the Rio…

EXCLUSIVE — The Department of Housing and Urban Development has sent federal employees into Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, to investigate federally administered aid programs following the discovery of a massive welfare fraud scheme believed to have been carried out by Somali immigrants. A HUD spokesperson told the Washington Examiner that the department is the latest…

The top U.S. counterterrorism official testified on Thursday that the federal government is aware of 18,000 people on the FBI terrorism watch list who were brought into the country during the Biden administration’s botched 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. National Counterterrorism Center Director Joseph Kent told lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee that the center…