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The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a cyberattack that compromised the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), a sensitive information-sharing platform used by federal, state, local, and private-sector partners.

Protests continued on Tuesday outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey, where U.S. Senator Andy Kim stated he had been pepper-sprayed by federal agents the day before during a demonstration against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside the facility.

On Tuesday, the top lawyer from the Department of Homeland Security instructed attorneys from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to vigorously pursue administrative fraud cases against immigration lawyers accused of submitting false asylum claims. This is the latest move in the administration’s efforts to expedite removals, enhance enforcement, and contest the legal framework surrounding immigration.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Florida’s attempt to initiate a lawsuit against Washington and California for allegedly issuing commercial driver’s licenses to truck drivers who are in the U.S. illegally and lack proficiency in English.

Protesters outside a migrant detention center in New Jersey, where a hunger strike is in progress, claimed that US immigration agents used pepper spray and batons against them during a demonstration on Monday.

When Tommy Fisher embarked on constructing a segment of the border wall in South Texas during the first Trump administration, the project swiftly became mired in controversy. Experts voiced worries about poor construction quality and indications of erosion.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a "Be on the Lookout" alert to law enforcement agencies across the country, focusing on a comedian whose satire of US immigration enforcement became widely popular.

Federal agents are now prohibited from making arrests in and around three Manhattan buildings where immigration proceedings take place, except in exceptional circumstances, a judge ruled on Monday.

A suburban community outside Atlanta has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and ICE regarding their plans to establish a detention facility for 10,000 immigrants in a town with fewer than 5,500 residents.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks, who previously served as Texas’ border czar before being appointed by the second Trump administration last year, is resigning from his position, according to three Department of Homeland Security sources who spoke to CBS News on Thursday.

The Senate unanimously agreed on Thursday to adopt a resolution that will withhold senators’ pay during a funding lapse for any federal agency, following two lengthy and record-breaking shutdowns in recent months that have significantly affected federal workers.

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin stated that the department has no immediate plans to close Alligator Alcatraz, even as he recognized that the soft-sided Florida immigration detention facility is susceptible to natural disasters.

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told CBS News that arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at this summer’s FIFA World Cup in the U.S. are still possible, but clarified that the agency will not be present at the global sporting event to "round up" non-citizens.

Only eight days after reentering the White House last year, President Trump revealed plans to transform the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into a large detention center designed to accommodate 30,000 detainees facing deportation as part of his stringent efforts to curb illegal immigration.

The urgent request from the parents of an 18-year-old with terminal cancer in Mexico was granted on Thursday when a federal judge in Arizona approved their expedited deportation from the U.S., allowing them to reunite with their dying son.

The shooter who killed three people and injured more than a dozen others in a mass shooting at a downtown Austin, Texas, bar in March was a "lone actor," and there is no evidence that he was supported or directed by a foreign terrorist group, FBI investigators said Thursday.

After being in ICE custody for over six weeks, a single mother of four from Texas expressed that she is "absolutely" afraid of it happening again.

On Friday, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from revoking legal protections for over 2,800 Yemeni nationals who are allowed to temporarily live and work in the United States, determining that the Department of Homeland Security likely acted unlawfully when it attempted to end the benefits earlier this year.

A unique archaeological site in the Sonoran Desert was destroyed by a bulldozer operated by a Department of Homeland Security contractor who was working on the construction of the latest sections of Donald Trump’s border wall, as reported by multiple sources familiar with the incident.

A longtime Texas court interpreter and mother of four, who was arrested in March by federal immigration officers, was released on Thursday, her attorney confirmed to CBS News.

As an asylum-seeker residing in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she observed the violence erupting amid the military-style immigration sweeps nationwide. Then she read about legal residents being arrested at immigration court and wondered when federal agents would focus on her city.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration cannot detain immigrants without allowing them the opportunity to seek bond, citing “serious constitutional questions” related to what it described as potentially the broadest mass-detention-without-bond mandate in the nation’s history for millions of noncitizens.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will hold a meeting this week with leaders of the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security to discuss the best ways to protect President Donald Trump at upcoming events, the White House informed reporters on Monday.