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The Department of Homeland Security announced it will renew the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows young illegal immigrants to stay and work in the country.  To date, more than 560,000 illegal immigrants have been shielded from

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of unaccompanied minors crossing the southwest border has increased more than 90 percent over the last year, and many of the unaccompanied children will be reunited with family members living in the United States, according

A surge of 148,000 illegal immigrants in seven months has led Border Patrol officials to warehouse humans in temporary buildings. Crowding is becoming so significant that fire marshals are objecting to housing facilities. “It’s clear DHS is not adequately prepared

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson departed from his predecessor’s dismissive stance about a potential breach of classified information to a man with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, saying it’s “problematic.” “I agree that unauthorized exposures of government information

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson was in the hot seat Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee, answering to the release of thousands of criminal aliens back into the United States.  “The end result of DHS’s practices is that

Fifty-nine members of Congress, led by Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore, are calling on Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson to halt immigration enforcement actions at courthouses. “We ask that DHS issue new department-wide guidance that ensures that courts–like

Courthouses should be off limits to officials looking to enforce immigration law, amnesty advocates are arguing.  According to a New York Times report the number of activists calling on the Obama administration to deem courthouses a “sensitive location” — where

Earlier this month, the newly installed Secretary of the Homeland Security Department, Jeh Johnson, met with the father of a man murdered by an illegal alien who was allowed to drive without a license, thanks to the sort of immigration

The release of criminal immigrants awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings is “unacceptable,” according to a sheriffs’ association involved in discussions with the Obama administration about immigration reform. In a letter this week to Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson, the

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has edited a statement defending the release of more than 36,000 criminal immigrants last year, adding language saying the detained aliens had already served time for their crimes and slightly changing an apparently incorrect statistic. The

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), one of the most important Republicans on the immigration issue, expressed outrage about the Department of Homeland Security releasing thousands of criminal aliens from detention. Now he’s planning to bring DHS Sec. Jeh

Over 36,000 criminals, including almost 200 murderers, were released back into the U.S. by immigration officials in 2013, according to fresh federal statistics obtained by Breitbart Texas. The figures, which were gathered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), were outlined in

On Tuesday, Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security, met with business leaders and representatives of various pro-amnesty groups, including Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, to discuss the need for “commonsense immigration reform” and “[to underscore] the importance of Congressional action to pass”

(AP)Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is weighing limiting deportations of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who don’t have serious criminal records, according to two people with knowledge of his deliberations. The change, if adopted following an ongoing review ordered

The man tasked with enforcing the nation’s immigration laws found himself face-to-face with a self-proclaimed “illegal alien” Monday in a meeting with far-leftwing activists from the protest group CODEPINK. “I’m an ‘illegal alien,’ that’s how you refer to us in

In his speech at the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson made an extraordinary statement about illegal immigrants in the United States. (h/t CNS News)

From CNS News: Speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have “earned the right to be citizens.” “An earned path

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) — The Senate voted by a wide margin Monday to make Jeh Johnson the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The vote was 78-16, ABC News reported. Johnson will succeed Janet Napolitano, who is

Speaking to an audience at Oxford University on Friday, the Pentagon’s top lawyer Jeh Johnson signaled the Obama administration may soon transition from handling terrorism as an act of war to handling it as a criminal matter. Johnson broached this

The United States must prepare for a time when it no longer is at war with Al-Qaeda and when sweeping legal powers ushered in after the September 11, 2001 attacks come to an end, the Pentagon’s top lawyer said. The

By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security WriterWASHINGTONThe Pentagon’s top lawyer on Thursday informed the former Navy SEAL who wrote a forthcoming book describing details of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden that he violated agreements to not divulge military secrets