President Joe Biden is leaving office with several immigration-related milestones under his belt, including the lowest number of deportations in a single year, the highest number of border encounters in another and record fentanyl seizures.
The current chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acknowledged that President Joe Biden could’ve done more to support his agency and secure the southern border. Patrick Lechleitner, who became acting ICE director in July 2023 and will be leaving once President-elect Donald Trump returns to power,
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman has canceled a Biden-era policy that blocked agents and officers from arresting unauthorized immigrants near “sensitive” locations such as hospitals,
Biden fulfilled a promise to restore the refugee resettlement program but also cracked down on the right to asylum
The president’s Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic operations and the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
Trump has said he would like to deport everyone living illegally in the United States, though he has not set a specific numerical target. Who is most at risk?
United States President Donald Trump has moved swiftly to begin firing more than 1,000 staff from the Joe Biden administration "not aligned with our vision".
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday announced that it had rolled back Biden-era guidance that limited federal immigration arrests near sensitive locations, including schools, hospitals and churches.
The acting director, in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, explained that the high number of migrants forced ICE to reassign staff to assist Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This had left ICE unable to fully focus on its primary responsibilities.