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A federal court Tuesday night upheld a challenge to the Trump administration’s asylum restrictions, namely a 2019 rule that requires seekers to ask for asylum closer to home.

As President Donald Trump imposes sweeping entry restrictions in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus — and considers still more — he’s relying on an agency to help implement them that has been hollowed out at the top ranks in a revolving door of leadership, potentially hampering his administration’s response to the crisis, NBC News reports.

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf toured the San Ysidro Port of Entry and the southwest border wall Wednesday, and met with members of various federal, state and local agencies regarding their challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Wolf said one of the primary reasons he visited San Diego, as well as Nogales, Arizona on Tuesday, was to observe and…

Federal officials say the COVID-19 outbreak has unleashed a wave of fraud

The coronavirus pandemic and its social repercussions are fueling violence, both by frustrated individuals and domestic terrorists, according to a new intelligence report by the Department of Homeland Security obtained by NBC News.

The Trump administration has quietly added surveillance cameras at the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the coronavirus pandemic

New York state officials have filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s move to block New York residents from participating in Global Entry and other programs that allow travelers to avoid long lines at airports and borders

The Trump administration official said that in response to the state’s sanctuary and Green Light laws, all New York residents “can’t enroll or re-enroll” in the Trusted Traveler Programs

The Trump administration official said that in response to the state’s sanctuary and Green Light laws, all New York residents “can’t enroll or re-enroll” in the Trusted Traveler Programs

Special Agent Wesley Petonak, 34, was sitting at his desk in November 2018 when he came across a PowerPoint presentation file that alarmed him. A nine-year veteran at San Diego’s Homeland Security Investigations office, Petonak knew firsthand the importance of intelligence gathering for successful immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border.  But the PowerPoint was different.  Nine of the slides...

The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Pentagon to fund the construction of 270 miles of border wall this year as part of a counter-drug effort, defense officials said Thursday.

The officials said the request came in Wednesday, and the Pentagon is beginning what will be a two-week assessment to determine what will be approved.

New lawsuit filed by an El Salvadoran refugee who collapsed after complaints of excessive bleeding went unnoticed.

Newly released documents show border agents began investigating an American pastor working with migrants in Tijuana in January 2019 when intelligence revealed possible evidence of marriage fraud. But the pastor said she did nothing wrong, and in the course of the investigation, border agents violated her constitutional rights. Pastor Kaji Dousa, a former pastor of the United Church in La…

Immigrants convicted of illegally reentering the U.S., driving drunk or committing domestic violence will be barred from claiming asylum under a proposed regulation announced Wednesday by the Trump administration....

The proposal, which must go through a public comment period before it is finalized, lists seven criminal areas, including some low-level crimes, that would bar migrants from claiming asylum in addition...

The internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security found that the Trump administration anticipated it would separate 26,000 children if the “zero tolerance” policy of 2018 had been allowed to continue, and that the agency knew it lacked the technology to track and reunite children with their parents, NBC News reported. Officials at Customs and Border Protection, the DHS...

The White House was locked down and fighter jets were mobilized after an airspace violation in Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning, according to law enforcement officials.

Immigrant workers at a famed New York bakery who are threatened with being fired if they don’t produce legal work papers defied the government outside President Donald Trump’s Manhattan home on Saturday.

Members of Congress will visit the U.S.-Mexico border in San Ysidro on Friday in response to the in-custody death of an asylum seeker from Cameroon.

When DACA came to life in 2012, there was a sigh of relief from certain undocumented people brought to the United States when they were children.

NBC 7’s Danny Freeman speaks with a legal analyst to better understand how we got to this point.