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Defendant; funded ads via Customs and Border Protection
The U.S. government spent nearly $22 million of taxpayer money airing ads that promote President Donald Trump. About $10 million of that came after Trump said his super PAC would take over the funding.
Updated 2 hours ago
Defends the third-country deportation policy
More than 25,000 people have been deported by the Trump administration to countries they have no ties to. Three Cuban men NPR spoke to are stuck in the Central African Republic, unsure of their legal status and unable to work.
Updated 4 hours ago
Oversees HSI; secretary has publicly cited the investigation
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington-area home Monday morning as part of an ongoing criminal investigation tied to her immigration paperwork. The search came three weeks before the midterm elections, in which the Minnesota Democrat is on the ballot.
Updated 6 hours ago
Parent agency named in the lawsuit
A federal judge barred U.S. immigration officers from three enforcement practices after a U.S.-born concrete worker said agents detained him three times, twice at Alabama homebuilding sites and once at his home. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Beaverstock ruled the policies likely violate the Fourth Amendment, noting agents dismissed his state REAL ID as 'fake.'
Updated Yesterday
Issued the July 2 waiver, now stayed by the injunction; filed Oct 9 motion seeking to lift the stay and pursue direct Supreme Court review
A federal judge halted border-barrier construction across Texas's Big Bend region on October 2, freezing five contracts worth about $7.5 billion and staying the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) construction waivers that had let contractors bypass environmental review. Work had already begun on 30-foot steel panels along a 47-mile stretch of Hudspeth County when the injunction landed.
Updated 2 days ago
Revoked TPS for Venezuelans; facing legal challenge
Arempas grew from a home empanada business to six locations across Utah's Wasatch Front. In the past year, the Venezuelan chain has closed three of them. Owners Fidel and Sandy Arrieta say the federal immigration crackdown under President Donald Trump emptied their dining rooms and halved their workforce.
Updated 3 days ago
Proposed the OPT fee rule
The Department of Homeland Security proposed a rule on October 7 that would charge $70,000 per international student for initial work authorization under Optional Practical Training, plus $30,000 for extensions. The current application fee is about $500.
Defendant
Common Cause filed a 94-page lawsuit Sept. 10 against the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and related agencies. Seven members say federal officers photographed them, followed them, pepper-sprayed them, or visited their homes because they watched immigration enforcement operations. The complaint asks a federal judge to bar the agencies nationwide from intimidating or retaliating against observers and to expunge records already collected.
Updated 6 days ago
Defending mandatory detention policy; the Supreme Court granted its petition for review on October 1, 2026
Eight federal appeals courts have rejected the Trump administration's policy of holding immigrants without bond hearings. The Supreme Court agreed on October 1 to hear the administration's appeal, with arguments in the term that begins October 5.
Updated Oct 4
Defendant in the case
The Supreme Court on September 29 let the Trump administration keep deporting immigrants to third countries while it reviews the case, an order three liberal justices dissented from. The court will hear arguments in December on whether the policy is lawful, whether lower courts had authority to block it, and whether it violates the Constitution's due process clause.
Updated Sep 30
Defendant in the lawsuit; parent agency of FEMA
A federal judge on Monday barred FEMA from withholding anti-terrorism grants from local governments that refuse the Trump administration's election rules. Judge Amir Ali of the District of Columbia struck down conditions that tied 20 percent of Homeland Security Grant Program funds to hand-marked paper ballot audits and citizenship checks through federal databases.
Updated Sep 28
Oversees USCIS and immigration enforcement; issuing the 2026 asylum rules
A person denied asylum in the United States can no longer file a new application on the same claim. The rule took effect immediately, covering every new and pending asylum application.
Updated Sep 20
Oversees ICE
The White House withdrew Lance Schroyer's nomination to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on September 17, 2026. The former Oklahoma state trooper's confirmation stalled after Republican Senator Rand Paul blocked a hearing over fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Updated Sep 18
Finalized the rule July 17, 2026; effective September 15, 2026
F-1 student visas used to stay valid as long as you kept studying, with no expiration date printed on your arrival record. As of September 15, 2026, that changed: U.S. Customs and Border Protection now prints a fixed 'admit until' date, usually the program end date capped at four years, plus a 30-day grace period.
Updated Sep 15
Holds the decision on Salvadoran TPS
Roughly 200,000 Salvadorans living in the US under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) kept their legal protections when the program's designation expired September 9. But their work permits expired the same day, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not said whether the program will continue or end.
Updated Sep 11
Has not distributed the $39.6M Congress directed for election security
Two months before the midterms, the federal agency built to protect election systems hasn't spent a cent of the money Congress told it to use. Top Democrats on both election committees are demanding the Department of Homeland Security release $39.6 million earmarked for local election security, with a response due September 9.
Updated Sep 6
Operation Catahoula Crunch ended prematurely after achieving only 11% of arrest target
On December 3, 2025, President Trump launched Operation Catahoula Crunch, a Border Patrol sweep targeting 5,000 arrests in southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi. The operation deployed roughly 250 agents to raid big-box stores, workplaces, and residential neighborhoods while conducting round-the-clock online surveillance of activists, protests, and community organizing.
Updated Sep 5
Oversees ICE; sets medical screening regulations
Lianyong Wei, a 51-year-old Chinese national, was booked into immigration detention in Saipan on Aug. 22. He was found unresponsive during morning checks the next day and pronounced dead at a territorial hospital at 7:30 a.m. His death marks the 57th detainee fatality since President Trump's second term began in January 2025, and the 24th since Jan. 1, 2026.
Updated Sep 4
Oversees ICE; awarded Axon contracts
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says it now has enough body cameras to equip every officer and agent. The announcement follows five years of delays, a February count of 3,000 cameras for 13,000 officers, and more than two dozen shootings as ICE arrests climbed under the Trump administration.
Updated Sep 3
Proceeding with TPS terminations following Supreme Court win
On June 25, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe that courts cannot review non-constitutional challenges to TPS terminations. Justice Alito wrote the majority opinion; the three liberal justices dissented.
Updated Jul 24
Overseeing customs order rollout under Secretary Markwayne Mullin
For decades, importing into the United States mostly meant filing paperwork and paying duties. A June 3 executive order changed that, requiring importers to certify supply-chain compliance, disclose who really owns their business, and hold U.S. assets to cover any duties owed.
Updated Jun 11
Implementing agency for the proclamation
For 45 years, the Refugee Act of 1980 has guaranteed that anyone reaching US soil—however they got there—can ask for asylum. On the first day of his second term, President Trump signed a proclamation declaring an 'invasion' at the southern border and suspending that right. A federal appeals court just ruled he cannot.
Updated May 31
45-day partial shutdown ongoing (record longest in US history) except TSA pay via EO starting March 30; Senate bill pending House, both chambers in recess until mid-April
The U.S. Senate passed a DHS funding bill by voice vote at 2:20 a.m. on March 27, 2026. It ends the partial shutdown that began February 14 for most agencies, but leaves out ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations and most U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Updated May 29
Contract authority and parent of ICE
On May 22, ICE awarded a $25.1 million no-bid contract to Plymouth, Massachusetts firm BI2 Technologies for iris-scanning hardware and continuous access to a database of more than five million booking records. The award is roughly five times the size of the $4.5 million contract ICE signed with the same vendor eight months earlier.
Updated May 27
Defendant in four parallel TPS litigations; appealing adverse rulings; filing emergency applications with Supreme Court to allow terminations to proceed
Venezuela received Temporary Protected Status in 2021, shielding hundreds of thousands from deportation. In January 2025, newly appointed Secretary Kristi Noem moved to terminate it—an action federal courts have blocked as exceeding her authority.
Updated May 26
Funded through February 13 via CR; next lapse possible without reform deal
A three-day partial government shutdown ended February 3 when the House passed a split funding package 217-214 and Trump signed it. The deal provides full-year appropriations for five agencies through September and extends DHS funding through February 13.
Updated May 23
Defendant in multiple lawsuits; leading Operation Metro Surge
The Department of Homeland Security deployed 3,000 federal agents to Minneapolis in what it calls the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history. Two months in, two U.S. citizens are dead: Renee Good, 37, shot January 7, and Alexander Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse, shot January 24; DHS claims self-defense in both cases, but witness videos contradict that.
Coordinating immigration enforcement; proposed new public charge rule
The U.S. has barred immigrants based on economic status since 1882. On January 21, 2026, the State Department suspended immigrant visa processing for 75 countries—more than a third of the world's nations—citing concerns that applicants might someday use public benefits.
Updated May 22
Named defendant in AAUP v. Rubio; Secretary Noem accused of conspiracy to violate First Amendment
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 gave the Secretary of State power to deport noncitizens whose presence threatens U.S. foreign policy. For seven decades, this Cold War-era statute gathered dust until March 8, 2025, when ICE arrested Mahmoud Khalil—a Columbia graduate student and green card holder—from his apartment for his role negotiating on behalf of pro-Palestinian protesters.
Updated May 21
700-agent MN drawdown implemented; school districts lawsuit filed against agency; 50+ advocacy groups calling for Noem impeachment; majority polling supports Noem removal
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez denied Minnesota's request for a temporary restraining order against Operation Metro Surge on February 2, 2026. She cited insufficient proof of constitutional violations, though she acknowledged evidence of racial profiling and excessive force.
Updated May 20
Seven-day notice policy upheld on procedural grounds, facing impeachment proceedings against Secretary
Three Minnesota congresswomen entered a Minneapolis ICE detention center on January 10 but were ordered out minutes later. They'd come three days after an ICE agent shot 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Good in the head during what the Trump administration called the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem secretly signed a seven-day notice rule the day after Good's killing—a rule a federal judge had already blocked—and Judge Jia Cobb refused to block it on January 20.
Joint author and enforcer of the asylum security bar rule
A Trump-era rule takes effect December 31, 2025, letting immigration officials deny asylum to anyone deemed a security threat based on communicable diseases. The rule was first published in December 2020, delayed five times by Biden's DHS, and now becomes law under Trump, despite no active pandemic.
Updated May 18
Implementing expanded travel restrictions and enforcement quotas
Trump signed his first travel ban seven days into his presidency, blocking entry from seven Muslim-majority countries and igniting protests; courts blocked it within a week. After Supreme Court victories, a Biden reversal, and his return to power, Trump's December 2025 expansion restricts entry from 39 countries—affecting one in eight people worldwide and eliminating exemptions for immediate family.
Updated May 16
Political and messaging headquarters for the maritime campaign
The U.S. Coast Guard is now chasing a third Venezuela-linked tanker in international waters near Venezuela—under a judicial seizure order. Two other tankers have already been stopped in the past 11 days, including one dramatic helicopter boarding that the administration amplified on social media.
Updated May 15
Issued the Federal Register notice terminating FRP and setting parole end-dates
DHS just turned a promised “legal pathway” into a ticking clock. A Federal Register notice published December 15, 2025 terminates every Family Reunification Parole program tied to seven countries—and tells people already here that their parole will end on January 14, 2026.
Primary implementing agency; central defendant in all major suits
The Trump administration imposed a $100,000 fee on new H‑1B visa petitions. Now twenty states are suing to overturn that fee in federal court, calling it an illegal end-run around Congress.
Defendant in Castañon Nava, appealing court limits on its officers
Federal agents flooded the Chicago area under “Operation Midway Blitz,” arresting thousands in a sweeping immigration crackdown. A little-known consent decree from an earlier ICE raid suddenly roared back to life, and a Chicago judge ordered hundreds of detainees released — until a divided appeals court slammed on the brakes.
Partnering with military inside National Defense Areas
Donald Trump has quietly turned long stretches of the southern border into de facto military bases. Under a new system of National Defense Areas, soldiers can stop migrants, hold them, and help prosecutors charge them as trespassers on military land.
Updated May 11
Oversees ICE and designs overarching deportation and detention policy
An ICE officer emailed a Colombian couple in Texas a choice no parent should face: board a deportation flight or risk a 10‑year prison sentence and losing their six‑year‑old to federal custody. They abandoned their trafficking victim visa case and were on a plane to Bogotá within weeks.
Running both mass deportation campaigns and security vetting for Gold Card applicants.
Donald Trump is now literally selling a fast track to America. His Trump Gold Card program lets wealthy foreigners buy expedited U.S. residency for a $1 million "gift" to the government, plus a $15,000 processing fee. A corporate option costs $2 million per sponsored worker.
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