The Latest Breaking News from the Department of Homeland Security

The federal agents were searching for eight Guatemalan nationals indicted in a federal case but instead found a terrified mother and her three daughters.

Yorely Bernal Inciarte and Maiker Espinoza Escalona were deported to Venezuela and El Salvador, but their child remains in the U.S. foster care system.

Lawyer who received notice to self-deport was born in the US

In the last few months DOGE has pursued immigration-related data across the Justice Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration, Rhian Lubin reports

Russian-born scientist Kseniia Petrova has been detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement since February when she failed to declare frog embryo samples at Boston's Logan Airport

More than 250 students in Texas had their status revoked in recent weeks. Despite the reversal, federal attorneys say they’re developing policies to resume terminations.

In today’s newsletter: The new US hardline policies have sparked widespread fear and controversy, as families, students, and tourists face arbitrary detention and deportation

Three advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, seeking to restore staff jobs at three gutted offices that oversee civil rights protections across the department’s broad mission

Attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security say the agency didn’t violate a judge’s order detailing when people may be deported to countries other than their own because it was the Defense Department — not DHS officials — doing the deporting

Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel's family only learned his whereabouts after the Department of Homeland Security responded to a request from NBC News.

A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board reported an unusual spike in potentially sensitive data flowing out of the agency’s network in early March 2025 when staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency, which goes by DOGE, were granted access to the agency’s databases. On April 7, the Department…