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He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up. Giovanna Perez loaded her four kids into the car on September 21 and drove from their home in Weslaco, Texas, to Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. She had a 9:30 a.m. appointment to pick up the ID cards that would allow them to access military medical insurance, facilities, and commissary stores.
He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
Giovanna Perez loaded her four kids into the car on September 21 and drove from their home in Weslaco, Texas, to Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. She had a 9:30 a.m. appointment to pick up the ID cards that would allow them to access military medical insurance, facilities, and commissary stores. Her husband, Pedro Gutierrez, had recently enlisted in the Army and left a month earlier for basic training at Fort Benning, in Georgia.
He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
Refugees 1 hour ago Feds target Minnesota in effort to terminate refugee status for immigrants sahanjournal.com - Nicolas Scibelli • 1h Kamal was hopeful that his summons in April for an interview at a Minneapolis immigration office wouldn’t be an issue.A refugee from Ethiopia, Kamal … California 17 hours ago Justice Dept.
The Problem With Trump’s Crime Claims
President Trump is deeply unpopular, and his party is on track to lose badly in the midterm elections. But at least one thing is going well on his watch: The nation’s homicide rate has dropped to its lowest level since at least 1900, and the number of violent crimes is falling across the country at the fastest pace ever recorded.
The Northern Passage
ICE is targeting Haitians with new intensity. Now some are fleeing the United States for Canada. First published in The Atlantic on September 21, 2026. by Nick Miroff, The Atlantic Photographs by Christopher Gregory-Rivera September 24, 2026 | reading time: 15 Min.
The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man last weekend in Austin, Texas, was a recent hire who was not wearing his body camera, three officials at the Department of Homeland Security with knowledge of the incident told me. The officer, who has not been publicly identified, was hired last year, according to two of the officials, but he previously worked for another federal law-enforcement agency, one of the officials said.
Haitians Are Fleeing to Canada Original
The message from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services arrived on August 7 as Jeanne was finishing up her shift at a restaurant in the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina. Her legal status in the United States had been terminated. Her work permit was no longer valid. Jeanne immediately switched off the location-tracking on her phone. What if ICE was already looking for her? What if she was deported back to Haiti? Five years in the United States had brought her physical safety but nagging stress.
ICE Has Quietly Changed Its Deadly-Force Rule
Officers under investigation can no longer return quickly to the streets. Ice quietly enacted new rules this month that will keep officers involved in deadly-force incidents—such as firing a gun and using a choke hold—off the streets until the completion of an investigation. Previously, these officers were able to return to their regular job in as few as three days.
ICE Has Quietly Changed Its Deadly-Force Rule
ICE quietly enacted new rules this month that will keep officers involved in deadly-force incidents—such as firing a gun and using a choke hold—off the streets until the completion of an investigation. Previously, these officers were able to return to their regular job in as few as three days.
How Trump Left America Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
During her January 2025 confirmation hearing to be secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem was asked how she would strengthen the nation’s cyberdefenses.
How Trump Left America Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
Culture 17 hours ago Ben Franklin chose America. Son William chose the crown. This civil war is a microcosm of revolution Associated Press - By DANICA KIRKA • 17h LONDON (AP) — In central London, near where tourists and business travelers board Eurostar trains to Paris, lies the burial place of Benjamin Franklin’s eldest son — a man whose life and family relationships were upended by his stance on the American Revolution.
The Death of Reliable Immigration Data
Marc Rosenblum, the top statistician at the Department of Homeland Security for more than a decade, resigned in frustration in late July. Three years ago, he established the Office of Homeland Security Statistics, with support from lawmakers from both parties, to provide Congress and the broader public with reliable, timely statistics on immigration enforcement and other homeland-security trends free of political interference. When President Trump returned, that effort was doomed.
The Man in Charge of Immigration Data Just Resigned
3 hours ago When Parady La, a Cambodian American father and long-time Philadelphia resident, died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody earlier this year just three days after he was arrested, the agency released scant details about what happened. La, 46, was “found distressed and stuporous with …
The Problem With Shutting Down ICE in Blue States
It was probably inevitable that the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, would become a battleground in the broader fight over President Trump’s mass-deportation campaign. The privately run jail reopened last year as the only sizable facility of its kind in the New York City metro area, with capacity for 1,000 ICE detainees. Trump officials have been threatening for months to intensify ICE enforcement in New York, making Delaney Hall essential to their plans.
The Education of Markwayne Mullin Original
The most important policy decision made by Markwayne Mullin in his short tenure atop the Department of Homeland Security stood for barely a day. ICE officers had just killed two people: a Mexican construction worker with three American sons in Texas, and a Colombian delivery driver whose 3-year-old daughter saw him lying dead in the street in Maine. In each case, the officers had been looking for men other than the ones they killed.
The Secretary of Homeland
1 hour ago The secretary of defense is making one of the most dangerous jobs in America more lethal. Three times in recent months, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has absolved military aviators caught on camera busting flight regulations. The message to pilots is clear: As long as what you do looks cool and …
Inside Trump’s Reversal on ICE
President Trump woke up this morning with an urgent message for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers deployed on U.S. streets: They were to pay no mind to the internal memo, issued barely a day earlier, telling them to suspend vehicle stops amid a public outcry over two fatal shootings by ICE officers in less than a week. Trump was issuing his own orders.
The Shooter in Maine Was a New ICE Recruit Original
Late last night, at the end of a day that started with the killing of a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine, the second fatal shooting involving a vehicle-stop in a week, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Liana Castano sent out an email to top ICE supervisors around the country.
Another Fatal ICE Shooting Original
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old construction contractor and father of three, was a “man of routine,” according to his sons. He woke up at 5 a.m. every day, ate a big breakfast prepared by his wife, and left home at sunrise to build houses in the Houston area. Salgado Araujo came across the border from Mexico as a teenager and had been working without legal status for 35 years. Yesterday he left in his work van to pick up his brother and two other men en route to a job.
Anxious at 250
This year’s Fourth of July fireworks show on the National Mall is the first such event to be designated a “National Special Security Event,” which requires the kind of screening procedures and police presence usually reserved for presidential inaugurations and Super Bowls. It’s a reflection of the logistical complexity and anticipated crowd size of America’s 250th birthday party, but also, unfortunately, its potential appeal to attackers at a time of rising threats.
Trump’s Other Paint Job Original
Halfway through President Trump’s first term, as construction crews were busy installing hundreds of miles of barriers along the southern border, a puzzling edict came down from America’s aesthete in chief. Trump wanted the border wall painted black. The president had already lost an argument about what his “big, beautiful wall” should look like. Trump envisioned a solid-concrete structure, like the one Israel has built through the West Bank.
Homeland Security’s Plan to Strong-Arm ‘Sanctuary’ Cities
In early April, shortly after Markwayne Mullin took over the Department of Homeland Security, he floated an idea on Fox News that wasn’t taken seriously; it sounded, in fact, like a proposal from someone very new on the job: Mullin threatened to cut federal screening of international passengers and cargo at airports in cities with “sanctuary” policies, which limit cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The World Cup Worry List
On Saturday, Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, used a speech at Kansas City International Airport to deliver an unusual message. Customs and Border Protection officers stood around him as a backdrop, and in his right hand, Mullin held the squishy pink ball he carries as a stress-management tool, gripping it as he spoke.
Stephen Miller in Retreat
Just hours before Stephen Miller arrived at the Mar-a-Lago ballroom on New Year’s Eve—where he would welcome 2026 by dancing next to the soon-to-be-defenestrated homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, as the 1990s cultural relic Vanilla Ice performed—he won a great, though ultimately fleeting, victory. The Labor Department’s Foreign Labor Certification office announced that the Trump administration would cut the number of approved visas for seasonal workers by about 50 percent.
Stephen Miller in Retreat
Just hours before Stephen Miller arrived at the Mar-a-Lago ballroom on New Year’s Eve—where he would welcome 2026 by dancing next to the soon-to-be-defenestrated homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, as the 1990s cultural relic Vanilla Ice performed—he won a great, though ultimately fleeting, victory. The Labor Department’s Foreign Labor Certification office announced that the Trump administration would cut the number of approved visas for seasonal workers by about 50 percent.
The Candidate From ICE
In mid-January, while Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents were battling protesters on the icy streets of Minneapolis, ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan abruptly quit. This was a week after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good; another protester, Alex Pretti, was slain nine days later. Sheahan, then 28, had been on the job for less than a year, but she did not resign in protest. She left to run for Congress in Ohio.
The $97 Million Utah Warehouse ICE Bought for $145 Million
The empty warehouse on the outskirts of Salt Lake City had a lot of potential but no buyers. Built in 2022, it was one of the largest warehouses in the area, with 833,000 square feet of space—14 football fields under one roof. The surrounding industrial zone had been promoted by the state as “Utah’s Inland Port,” a logistics hub smack-dab in the middle of a desert but only a few minutes to the freeway and the international airport.
ICE Wants to Transform an SLC Warehouse into a Immigration Jailhouse
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement recently purchased a warehouse on Salt Lake City’s west side, but the agency doesn’t intend to use the site for goods or merchandise: It will be a detention facility, part of the agency’s efforts to round up and deport a million people every year.ICE failed to inform any local lawmakers prior to buying the warehouse. They didn’t even notify the state’s all-GOP congressional delegation of their plans.
Kristi Noem is Gone. Now Mass Deportations Can Really Begin.
Markwayne Mullin cultivated a reputation in Congress as a brawler, but he sounded more like a peacemaker as he was sworn in this week as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. “I don’t care what color your state is. I don’t care if you’re red or you’re blue,” Mullin, a former mixed-martial-arts fighter, said during the brief Oval Office ceremony, with President Trump looking over his shoulder.
Senators press Mullin for answers about immigration enforcement and more
By Here & Now's Indira Lakshmanan checks in with The Atlantic's Nick Miroff, who covers immigration and the Department of Homeland Security, about the confirmation chances for Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to be the next Homeland Security secretary. Mullin faced senators during a confirmation hearing on Wednesday. This article was originally published on WBUR.org. Copyright 2026 WBUR
The ‘Big Black Scar’
Listen1.0x 0:0023:05 Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. At Coronado National Memorial in Arizona, the demolition crews blowing up national-park land tend to announce explosions at least a day in advance, as a warning for hikers to stay away. The crews have been working their way up the western slope of the park for the past couple of months, right along the international boundary with Mexico.
Kristi Noem Bought 11 Warehouses to Use as ICE Jails. Now What?
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. By the time President Trump ousted Kristi Noem from the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month, her team had already embarked on a spending spree that included far more than the new luxury jet and the self-promotional ads that got her in trouble at the White House.
High Stakes, and a Low Bar, For Markwayne Mullin at DHS
During the 14 months of Kristi Noem’s tenure at the Department of Homeland Security, I regularly heard from staffers—career law-enforcement officers and political appointees alike—who were desperate for a return to institutional normalcy. Their concerns weren’t ideological. They felt, instead, that Noem was running the department and its law-enforcement agencies as an attention-grabbing spectacle, undermining their mission. Consider Noem’s appearance at a Salvadoran megaprison.
Arizona Is Now at the Center of Election Investigations
Listen1.0x 0:0010:37 Updated on March 10 at 9:21 p.m. ET. In mid-February, as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was fighting to keep her job, she held an election-security event at a Homeland Security Investigations field office in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the past, she said, the state had been an “absolute disaster on elections,” and ensuring the security of election equipment was her responsibility. She also urged Congress to pass President Trump’s voter-ID bill.
Why Trump Soured on Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem played “Hot Mama” as the walk-up song for her formal introduction at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in January 2025. President Trump had put her in charge of his signature campaign promise—the largest mass-deportation campaign in U.S. history—and Noem took a fast, flashy approach to the job. She dressed as a Border Patrol agent and an ICE officer, and rode horseback at Mount Rushmore in ads.
Kristi Noem Watch
Since Alex Pretti’s killing three weeks ago, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been trying to distance herself from Minneapolis—politically and geographically. Last week, Noem went to southern Arizona to give a speech about border-wall construction. Yesterday, she was at a warehouse along the border in California, straining to tout the Trump administration’s drug-seizure data above the clamor of protesters outside.
ICE After Minneapolis
A few hours after Tom Homan announced a drawdown of federal forces in Minneapolis this week, the rest of President Trump’s fractious immigration team gathered at the border wall in Arizona for a speech by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Gusty desert winds coated everyone in dust and blew Noem’s hair wildly around her ball cap. The event was tightly choreographed to project unity. Noem praised Homan, the White House “border czar” and her rival for control of the immigration crackdown.
ICE After Minneapolis
2 hours ago It wasn't supposed to go this way for the crypto industry. President Trump got re-elected vowing to make the U.S. "the crypto capital of the world." Since he retook office, he has appointed regulators known to be friendly with the industry, while the Republican-led Congress has passed legislation …
Battles Are Raging Inside the Department of Homeland Security
"The president’s crackdown has adopted an improvisational approach, not an institutional one, with blurred leadership roles and no clear chain of command." (photo: Mark Peterson/Redux) Officials overseeing Trump’s mass-deportation campaign are fighting one another for power.
The War Within Homeland Security
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared before a bank of television cameras in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night to blame the man who had been shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis that morning for his own death, claiming without evidence that he had intended “to kill law enforcement” and had been “brandishing” a weapon. Behind her stood the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Rodney Scott, sending a silent message of unity.
Greg Bovino loses his job
Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol commander at large and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change.Bovinos sudden demotion is the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is reconsidering its most aggressive tactics after the killing Saturday of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents under Bovinos command.Earlier today,...
Greg Bovino Loses His Job
8 hours ago President Donald Trump insists that the United States will effectively take ownership of U.S. military bases in Greenland, making them sovereign U.S. land. A senior Greenlandic official described that scenario as a "red line." Naaja Nathanielsen has a sprawling government portfolio as minister of …
Most ICE Recruits Haven’t Deployed Yet
In the second Trump administration, immigration policy is made with big round numbers. There’s a formula: First the White House sets an ambitious goal—1 million deportations a year, 3,000 immigration arrests a day. Then it presses the federal workforce to meet the target. Last year, Trump officials pledged to double staffing at ICE by adding 10,000 new deportation officers by January 2026.
Il fanatico stratega di Donald Trump
Ogni mattina alle dieci Stephen Miller conduce le sue riunioni in videoconferenza come un generale in tempo di guerra, più che come un consigliere del governo. La sua voce è quella dominante: interpreta il ruolo del despota, dell’inquisitore, del bullo. Non accetta scuse, non tollera dissensi. Come vicecapo di gabinetto per le politiche della Casa Bianca, segue con spietata determinazione la linea del presidente Donald Trump, soprattutto quando si tratta di espellere gli immigrati.
From Stopping Osama bin Laden to Killing Renee Good
“We don’t do politics in the Department of Homeland Security,” Tom Ridge, the nation’s first DHS secretary, liked to say whenever reporters would ask how he handled pressure from the White House. Ridge, a moderate Republican and a Vietnam vet with a square jaw and gentle manner, was the governor of Pennsylvania when nearly 3,000 Americans were killed on September 11, 2001. The nation was gripped with fear and horror, and President George W.
‘Maybe DHS Was a Bad Idea’
Now Vocal Trump supporters are demonizing Renee Good, her partner and their allies, with some even using an acronym: AWFUL, or Affluent White Female Urban Liberal. In the days since a federal agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, Republican officials and conservative commentators have called the …
From ‘I’m Not Mad at You’ to Deadly Shots in Seconds
Frazzled agents, quick triggers, and a motor-powered protest movement are creating a uniquely dangerous moment on U.S. streets. First published in The Atlantic on January 9, 2026. by Nick Miroff, The Atlantic January 15, 2026 | reading time: 9 Min.
The Wrath of Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller runs his daily 10 a.m. conference calls—yes, even on Saturdays—less like a government adviser and more like a wartime general. His is the dominant voice, as he plays the role of browbeater, inquisitor, and bully. He accepts no excuses, entertains no dissent.
From ‘I’m Not Mad at You’ to Deadly Shots in Seconds
President Trump has sent waves of federal agents to Democratic-run “sanctuary cities” over the past eight months, depicting the operations like episodes in a roving MAGA reality show. The places Trump targets tend to become temporary sites of protest—and produce fodder for his meme-driven administration’s social-media channels. The relentless pressure on ICE to ramp up deportations has left officers on edge. The neighborhoods they’re targeting are on edge, too.
ICE Shooting in Minneapolis Deepens Immigration Rift
Aidan Perzana woke up to honking vehicles and looked out his window just as ICE officers surrounded an SUV. The 31-year-old data engineer told me he saw the officers moving to the side of the vehicle as the driver attempted to pull away. “There was not a thought in my mind that she was going to hit one of them,” he said. “I was surprised to hear the gunshots.” Videos circulating on social media showed more of the confrontation.
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