With just four days left of the Biden administration, art still hangs in Alejandro Mayorkas’ office in the far reaches of southeast Washington, where a tall window alcove overlooks a snowy capital.

The Biden administration on Friday announced the extension of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals from a slew of countries, just weeks before the incoming Trump ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the Trump administration has revoked a decision from the waning days of the ...

She faces a confirmation hearing Wednesday. Recommended Videos As he prepares to leave office, Mayorkas said he has spoken repeatedly to Noem, including about the Jan. 1 truck attack in New ...

The border has been an issue for the Biden Administration. Daily encounters in December along the southwest border were the lowest average since July 2020, according to Department of Homeland ...

Mr. Mayorkas, known to employees as “Santo Mayorkas” for his frequent vacation indulgences, announced the extra time off in a departing message this week to his workforce.

“Right now, the situation is quite dire,” Mayorkas said Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Mayorkas is in his final weeks as DHS secretary before Biden leaves office. The fires around Los Angeles ...

Amna Nawaz discussed more with outgoing Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Immigration has been a white-hot political issue for years and helped propel Donald Trump back into the White House.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the waning days of the Biden administration, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his agency’s work to tamp down border-crossing numbers and argued ...

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