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The Senate voted to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security to end a partial shutdown and reduce airport security delays, but funding for ICE and Border Patrol is excluded for now; Republicans plan to address those agencies via reconciliation, while Democrats failed to secure immigration-restriction provisions. The House must pass the bill before it can be sent to the president.
President Trump proposed deploying ICE agents to airports to ease TSA lines, but Senate Democrats are demanding restraints on immigration agents and a DHS funding deal remains elusive, leaving wait times and lines unchanged despite the deployment.
Washington Post travel guidance for dealing with unusually long TSA lines amid a partial Homeland Security shutdown: monitor checkpoint wait times, register for expedited security programs, and use proactive tactics like the “flat-tire” rule to avoid missing your flight.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security, faced a tense confirmation hearing where Sen. Rand Paul pressed him on past remarks about Paul and on undisclosed, reportedly classified overseas travel, potentially delaying the panel’s vote amid a DHS funding stalemate and a partial government shutdown.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security, has highlighted overseas “special assignments” and Afghanistan experiences to justify his qualifications, but offered few concrete details ahead of his confirmation hearing; his spokeswoman says he was doing mission work and joining congressional trips, leaving lawmakers to scrutinize his national-security credentials and overseas background.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin would become the head of the Department of Homeland Security if confirmed, a Republican bid for steadier leadership of the agency as Trump reshapes immigration policy amid waning public support for the deportation push.
President Trump announced the removal of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem and will replace her with Sen. Markwayne Mullin, amid bipartisan criticism of her management of the administration’s mass deportation agenda and FEMA-related efforts.
Surveillance footage obtained by Investigative Post contradicts DHS’s claim that Border Patrol dropped Nurul Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee, at a warm, safe location after his jail release. The video shows a van arriving at a closed Tim Hortons in Buffalo after hours and Shah Alam, who could not access the shop, wandering the area for days before his death. DHS said officers offered a courtesy ride to a safe location, but critics say it amounted to abandonment. Refugees International and others are calling for a full probe into Border Patrol’s handling of Shah Alam and similar cases.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a memo directing federal immigration agents to arrest refugees who have not yet obtained green cards and detain them indefinitely for re-screening, a dramatic policy shift that reverses decades of protections and threatens tens of thousands who entered during the Biden administration; resettlement groups say the guidance upends protections and endangers refugee families.
A House Homeland Security Committee hearing questioned Todd Lyons (acting ICE director), Rodney Scott (CBP commissioner) and Joseph Edlow (USCIS director) about immigration enforcement tactics amid scrutiny of the Minneapolis surge, marking the first such appearance before the panel since the start of Trump’s second term and following the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renée Good linked to federal immigration personnel.
A federal judge granted the Ramos family more time to respond to DHS’s bid to fast-track their deportation, delaying asylum proceedings for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his relatives. The family, previously detained after ICE arrested them in Minnesota and held at the Dilley facility, faces ongoing uncertainty as advocates urge protections for children and stability, including schooling, amid an aggressive immigration enforcement climate.
A federal judge blocks Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s effort to terminate temporary protected status for about 353,000 Haitians in the U.S., a ruling highlighted in George F. Will’s Washington Post column on immigration policy.
Democrats are linking funding for the Department of Homeland Security (and thus ICE) to new restrictions on federal immigration agents, including barring agents from wearing face masks and requiring a judge’s warrant to enter private property; Republicans have called the proposals a “ridiculous Christmas list” but say they’re open to negotiation as they grid through a funding stalemate over immigration policy.
Tenants living near the Portland ICE facility filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to bar agents from using tear gas that is likely to infiltrate their homes, arguing the gas endangers residents and should only be deployed if officers face an imminent threat.
After a January Border Patrol shooting in Portland left two Venezuelan immigrants hospitalized, DHS claimed the victims were gang members who weaponized their vehicle. Guardian reporting and DOJ court filings show a prosecutor said the government wasn’t claiming gang membership for one victim, and an FBI affidavit contradicts DHS’s assertions about the other, prompting legal experts to describe the case as a smear campaign and underscoring calls for slower, more thorough investigations.