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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifies in the Senate as backlash grows over deadly immigration enforcement actions tied to President Donald Trump's deportation push.
Washington, D.C. — A federal court today ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to restore Members of Congress’s unannounced visits to conduct oversight of detention facilities. The ruling enforces federal law and reaffirms Congress’s authority to investigate detention conditions and ensure accountability, including during a lapse in appropriations.
A D.C. federal judge paused a Trump administration policy requiring lawmakers to give a seven-day advance notice for oversight visits to immigration detention centers, ruling Monday the lawmakers have shown irreparable injury absent relief given the need for "real-time, on-the-ground information" about facility conditions and detainees' statuses.
President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort has led to a record number of immigrants being held in federal detention centers, local jails, and private prisons.
The federal government is withholding a $608 million grant to help pay for Florida’s migrant lockups because a required environmental review still hasn’t been completed, newly released records show.
The governor stopped short of discussing what his admin might do following a private meeting with local officials.
The focus of the hearing is likely to be on how Kristi Noem is pursuing President Trump's mass deportation efforts in his second term, after two U.S. citizens were killed by immigration officers.
Secretary of Homeland Security to face two days of grilling on Capitol Hill
Fewer than 3% of asylum cases decided in January were approved — a record low, according to Mobile Pathways, a San Francisco nonprofit that analyzes federal immigration data.
Kristi Noem's testimony comes after calls for congressional oversight of the Trump administration's immigration operations following the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents.
When Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore signed emergency legislation last month prohibiting agreements between local law enforcement agencies and federal immigration authorities, he was pushing back against one of the fastest-growing pieces of President Donald Trump’s deportation strategy. The expansion of immigration enforcement hasn’t happened primarily through high-profile raids: It has unfolded through formal partnerships […]
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb previously froze the Department of Homeland Security’s policy requiring lawmakers provide advance notice to tour immigration facilities, after blocking two versions of the policy in December and February.