Mayorkas, who said he plans to stay on the job until Monday at noon, told ABC News he has had "substantive and very productive and very collegial" conversations with Trump's pick to be the new DHS secretary, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.

Immigration has been a white-hot political issue for years and helped propel Donald Trump back into the Oval Office. The incoming president has promised mass deportations and is expected to issue a slew of related executive orders soon after being sworn in.

In December, the number of migrant encounters by Border Patrol along the Southwest border dropped to about 47,300 — the lowest since August 2020

Outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, who for four years has ... or whether that be the wildfires in California, or whether that be the tragic death of 14 individuals on ...

A majority of Americans voted in 2024 for President Trump to secure the border and enforce immigration laws. He's ended catch-and-release and unchained ICE from onerous process rules.

The U.S. Pentagon is sending an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border by the end of the week, a senior U.S. military official told Fox News.

President Donald Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday (Jan. 25, 20250, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and President Donald Trump’s plans to clamp down on illegal immigration.

Mia Andrade 19, doing laps in the pool at the Border View Family YMCA in San Ysidro on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune ...

Mia Andrade 19, doing laps in the pool at the Border View Family YMCA in San Ysidro on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday issued memos to repeal limits on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents imposed by former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas -- and order a review of the use of humanitarian parole to ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted against impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, the Jewish homeland security secretary, after a process that a number of Jewish groups ...