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Three U.S. senators have called for an overhaul of federal agents’ use of tear gas and pepper spray, citing a ProPublica investigation that found at least 79 children were left screaming, coughing, or hurt by these chemicals during President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

U.S. Senate Republicans voted on Thursday to move forward with a $70 billion plan to fund the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agencies for the next three years, disregarding demands from Democrats for restrictions on immigration enforcement agents and their operations.

Senate GOP leaders officially announced on Tuesday that they intend to bypass Democrats in the ongoing deadlock over Department of Homeland Security funding and independently allocate up to $70 billion for immigration enforcement.

Five days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot activist Renee Good, tensions were escalating in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she was killed.

The National Guard soldiers in desert camouflage exited unmarked vans in East Los Angeles last June, barricading East Sixth Street, a residential street lined with single-family houses, and obstructing a nearby road leading to an elementary school.

Our reporting began, as much of our work does, in a spreadsheet. As I sifted through federal court data, I noticed something unusual: Within months of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, prosecutors started filing obscure charges related to trespassing on military property — so many, in fact, that more cases were filed in 2025 than in the previous decade.

Former Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem has officially been removed from the department, days before her tenure as the agency’s leader is scheduled to conclude.

Gregory Bovino, who became a representative of the Trump administration’s assertive immigration enforcement strategies in major cities, confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that he intends to retire from the Border Patrol in the upcoming weeks.

Leigh Kunkel did not notice the federal agent aiming a pepper ball gun at her face from approximately twenty feet away.

Following a year filled with controversies, Kristi Noem’s fate was determined in just a few days. It began with a tip-off from the Hill.

Democratic lawmakers are criticizing the Trump Administration following reports that a government-owned drone was shot down with a laser by the U.S. military in Texas.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind and illiterate 56-year-old Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, was found dead in Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday after being released from US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) detention.

In the final moments before he was shot and killed by federal authorities in Minneapolis, Pretti attempted to intervene in a confrontation where several federal agents were shoving two women.

During Donald Trump’s second presidential term, ICE has seen its workforce double and its budget triple. At the same time, the rising number of innocent people harmed by the agency’s officers has sparked growing outrage across the United States.

Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino commended a federal agent who shot a woman from Chicago during an immigration operation last year, as per the evidence unveiled on Wednesday by attorneys who have alleged that the Trump administration mishandled the investigation and disseminated falsehoods regarding the shooting.

A House Democrat has invited Marimar Martinez to attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., after she was shot by Customs and Border Patrol officers five times.

The cars were left abandoned at the roadside. Their engines were idling, and hazard lights were flashing, as reported by a witness who recorded a video of the incident on his phone.

On Tuesday afternoon, Congress approved a spending package that secures funding for the vast majority of federal agencies through September, ending the second government shutdown in four months.

Days before the federal government incorrectly labeled nurse Alex Pretti, who was carrying a cellphone, as a terrorist planning a "massacre," a jury in Chicago found Juan Espinoza Martinez not guilty of false charges related to a murder-for-hire scheme against then-Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino.

The two federal immigration agents who shot at Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti have been identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents discharged their weapons during the deadly shooting of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti over the weekend, as outlined in a government report sent to Congress and obtained by CBS News, which does not indicate that Pretti reached for his firearm.

Washington — Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, is under internal scrutiny within the Trump administration following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation who spoke to CBS News. However, Noem is expected to retain her position.

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino has made several startling statements following the deadly Border Patrol shooting of Alex Pretti on Saturday. However, one statement in particular was highlighted over the weekend by the Minnesota Department of Corrections as being blatantly untrue.