Local authorities say a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, where anti-ICE protesters gathered for hours.

Virginia’s attorney general says the Department of Homeland Security may have violated several state election laws following a whistleblower report.

President Donald Trump's efforts to assert federal control over elections are marching on despite a recent loss in the Supreme Court.

A whistleblower claims a Trump administration effort to find noncitizen voters may violate state laws.

Detainees at a now-closed immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades — known as “Alligator Alcatraz” — were held for up to two hours in small metal enclosures used as “calming areas.”.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's plan to cut staffing at FEMA by 50% was unlawful.

A deadline for the Trump administration to decide whether about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador can remain protected from deportation has passed without any public announcement.

A supervisor overseeing background checks warned last year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was hiring scores of new officers without basic vetting, violating federal rules and putting the agency at risk of misconduct.

The House has passed a short-term measure to fund the federal government into early December.

Advocates are speaking against a sweeping undercover federal surveillance operation that court documents say targeted progressive groups and unions protesting the Minneapolis immigration crackdown.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks is facing criticism from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who call it unnecessary and cruel.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.

Congressional Democrats say they are investigating the Trump administration’s efforts to deport military service members and their families.

A federal judge has ruled that the Department of Homeland Security can proceed with building a border wall through a levee system in a small Texas town.

A woman deported to Mexico despite having legal permission to remain in the U.S. has filed suit against the federal government.

President Donald Trump’s border czar said the vetting of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer involved in the deadly shooting of a Colombian native in Maine is under internal review.

Two sons of a man shot by immigration officers in Houston have told members of Congress about the horror and confusion of learning their father had been killed.

More than two dozen states have sued the Trump administration after it required them to comply with election and immigration conditions to get billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters.

Two witnesses have told a federal court the immigration agent who fatally shot a Mexican man in Houston on July 7 was in no danger of being run over.

A small Texas town is challenging the Trump administration's border wall plans, arguing they could cause flooding and bypass legal processes.

Protesters gathered in Orlando on Saturday to call for accountability and transparency after two deadly encounters involving ICE agents, as federal officials review enforcement policies nationwide.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has warned state officials they could lose funding or face investigations if they don't follow President Donald Trump’s election security demands.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to close relatives who spoke to The Associated Press.

The family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man fatally shot by a federal immigration agent in Houston, is holding a public vigil for him.

The Trump administration is drastically shortening visas for foreign journalists in the U.S. The new rule announced by the Department of Homeland Security limits visas to 240 days, down from up to five years.

A new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten.

Authorities say a man running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor trailer.

A Texas congresswoman says a Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston operation.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June.

A federal judge has ruled that a revamped federal tool that state election officials have used in their efforts to identify illegally registered noncitizen voters is unlawful and cannot be used.

Salt Lake City and its county have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to open a giant warehouse in the city that would be used to detain up to 10,000 immigrants.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says Immigration and Customs Enforcement will increase training for new officers.

A federal immigration agent wanted in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown has been arrested in Texas.

An Iranian family that’s lived in the United States for a decade is demanding their release from immigration detention after they were arrested due to a relative’s role in the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis.

The immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in South Florida could shut down as soon as next month, according to reports from multiple media outlets.

The Trump administration says a former executive at a private prison operator will serve as the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Democratic members of Congress from across the country gathered in Orlando on Monday to announce an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly referred to as ICE.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” always was meant to be temporary.

President Donald Trump has signed a bill funding much of the Department of Homeland Security and ending the longest agency shutdown in history.

A federal appeals court says the Trump administration cannot jail immigrants without a chance for a bond hearing, citing “serious constitutional questions.”.

A Colorado district attorney has charged an immigration agent after a protester said she was held in a chokehold during demonstrations against the detention of an immigrant father and two children.

A man has been charged in a string of attacks near Atlanta over a matter of hours that left two women dead and a man in critical condition.

Republicans in Congress are forging ahead with a risky go-it-alone strategy for funding the Department of Homeland Security.

A Minnesota county is investigating the arrest by federal officers of a Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment.

A federal judge from Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for over 5,000 Ethiopians.

Protesters are rallying against a planned immigration detention facility in Maryland.

President Donald Trump says he'll soon sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who have gone without paychecks during the partial government shutdown that has reached 48 days.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has rescinded a rule that DHS expenditures over $100,000 be personally approved by his office.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have announced a plan to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security and try to end a record partial government shutdown.

Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy new warehouses for immigrant detention as it reviews contracts signed under former secretary Kristi Noem.

In a story published March 31, 2026, about immigration detention facilities, The Associated Press erroneously reported the last name of the mayor of Surprise, Arizona.

The move could bring fast relief to unpaid TSA officers and help ease the staffing strain contributing to long, slow-moving airport lines, including in Orlando.

President Donald Trump has signed a promised executive action that will pay Transportation Security Administration employees, after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress.

An appeals court has paused lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal officers' use of tear gas during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.

President Donald Trump says he will sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration workers.

Travel disruptions have deepened as senators are racing to salvage a proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown.

Nonprofits and airport communities across the country are feeding Transportation Security Administration officers who keep working without full pay during the partial government shutdown.

Lawmakers appear far from ending a funding lapse at the Department of Homeland Security.

Spring break travelers are facing unpredictable lines at airport security as the partial U.S. government shutdown strains TSA staffing.

Thousands of flights are canceled or delayed one day after powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and disrupted thousands of others.

The Trump administration is restarting the Global Entry program just over two weeks after it halted the service for travelers because of the partial government shutdown.

Newly released videos showing the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent in Texas last year call into question assertions by the Department of Homeland Security that a driver intentionally rammed an agent with his car.

The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority is hosting a food drive to assist Transportation Security Administration agents and other federal workers who are working without pay during the funding lapse.

A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security is stalling out again in Congress.

A judge is temporarily suspending the latest version of a Trump administration policy that requires members of Congress to provide a week’s notice before they can visit immigration detention facilities.

A federal judge has extended his order protecting refugees in Minnesota who are lawfully in the U.S. from being arrested and deported.

The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to allow the government to end legal protections for migrants from Syria for now.

A DHS official is promising top state election administrators that immigration agents will not be at polling places during November's midterm election.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries” to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside.

Residents in a Southern California city want local police to stop letting federal immigration agents train at a publicly owned firing range.

A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer says the agency’s training for new deportation officers is broken as ICE ramps up its hiring.

Senate Democrats are unveiling a bill to have the government refund about $175 billion in Trump-era tariff money after the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs were illegal.

Severe winter weather across the northeastern United States, a partial government shutdown and security concerns in parts of western Mexico made air travel challenging Monday.

The Department of Homeland Security says the Global Entry program shuts down for as long as the partial government shutdown continues.

At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers.

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States.

Lawmakers and the White House are offering no signs of compromise in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers.

More than 1,000 immigration agents have left Minnesota’s Twin Cities area and hundreds more will depart in the days ahead as part of the Trump administration’s drawdown of its immigration enforcement surge.

The Trump administration is scaling back its immigration enforcement surge in and around the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, but state officials and residents say its effects on Minnesota’s economy and immigrant communities will linger.

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to give detained immigrants in Minnesota quick, private access to lawyers.

An immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against a landscaper who was arrested in California last year.

A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appears certain.

The IRS has erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new court filing.

Congressional leaders said Tuesday that a deal was still possible with the White House on Homeland Security Department funding before it expires this weekend.

An immigration court has blocked the deportation of a Turkish Tufts University student who was detained by immigration officials near her Massachusetts home last year.

Democratic leaders say a proposal from the White House is “incomplete and insufficient” as they are demanding new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown just days before funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to expire.

A federal judge based in Orlando Monday expressed frustration over a recent social media post made by United States Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Federal authorities have denied attempting to expedite an end to asylum claims for the family of a 5-year-old boy who was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown that has shaken the Minneapolis area.

A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump's administration can continue detaining immigrants without bond.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Democrats' demands for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic.”.

A judge says U.S. immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless they are likely to escape.

President Donald Trump's border czar says he is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to turn over arrested immigrants.

Federal immigration officials are scouting warehouses and beginning to purchase some of them to transform into detention and processing facilities.

A judge in Oregon has temporarily restricted federal officers from using tear gas at protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says it'll be a few days before a government funding package comes up for a vote in the House.

A federal judge says she won’t halt the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota and the Twin Cities as a lawsuit over it proceeds.

President Donald Trump acted quickly to negotiate with Democratic senators on a deal to avert a government shutdown.

A federal judge has refused to order the pretrial release of a man charged with placing two pipe bombs near the national headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties on the eve of a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says immigration officials have ceased their enhanced operations in the state.

Democrats and the White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security as they negotiate new restrictions for President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement.