5 former DHS chiefs urge Trump, Congress to fund agency during shutdown
President Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly was one of the former DHS secretaries who signed the letter
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President Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly was one of the former DHS secretaries who signed the letter
It is unknown how many children have been separated from their families by U.S. immigration authorities, but the total could be thousands more than the government has previously acknowledged, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. CBS News' Graham Kates joins CBSN with details.
Admiral Karl Schultz confirmed in a letter to service members that they would not receive their mid-January paychecks
Even if it gets funded, regulations and a lack of accessibility would make building a wall along the southern border extremely difficult
The Tornillo detention center opened last June to house children who crossed the U.S. border alone
Rep. Nanette Barragán accused the president of misleading the American public to build his proposed border barrier
The DOJ said it would not be retracting or correcting the study
The Trump administration is overhauling the asylum process. Migrants will now have to wait in Mexico for their immigration court date in the U.S. New York Times homeland security correspondent Ron Nixon joins CBSN to take us through the policy shake-up.
The watchdog said it would provide a final report to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Congress and the public
A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died in U.S. custody. The girl and her father crossed into the U.S. illegally and turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents. Hours later, the girl began having seizures and was taken to a hospital, where she died. Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers have more.
More than 25,000 migrant families were detained in November near the southern border for crossing into the U.S. illegally, according to government data
Immigration judges rejected 65 percent of immigrants seeking refugee status, according to data from Syracuse University
President Trump is defending the use of what he called "safe" tear gas to stop migrants trying to rush into the U.S. at the Mexico-U.S. border. The Department of Homeland Security says more than 600 of the thousands of migrants are convicted criminals. Mireya Villarreal reports.
A 60 Minutes investigation has found the separations that dominated headlines this summer began earlier and were greater in number than the Trump administration admits
60 Minutes captures the moment a mother sees her young daughter after nearly 4 months of being apart
President Trump reportedly wants to replace Kirstjen Nielsen as Secretary of Homeland Security, frustrated with her enforcement of immigration policies. CBS News Washington correspondent Paula Reid joins CBSN with more.
All elections are vulnerable to cyberattack, but according to the Department of Homeland Security and election officials, your vote is secure
Homeland Security official Christopher Krebs warns of ongoing disinformation campaigns aimed at causing distrust about the security of our vote
An new report conducted by the Government Accountability Office shows the Departments of Homeland Security and Heath and Human Services were unprepared for the increase in children separated from their parents or legal guardians. CBS News political correspondent Ed O'Keefe joins CBSN with more.
Asylum-seeking parents could have the choice between staying with their children in detention centers or allowing their children to enter a government shelter
President Trump spoke about Florida's preparations for Hurricane Michael at the White House with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FEMA Administrator Brock Long. Watch their remarks.
The president met with Homeland Security and FEMA leaders about preparations for Hurricane Michael
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said at a cybersecurity summit that attempts at election interference by Russia and China have not been detected
The Department of Homeland Security released a new rule proposal that would allow the government to reject visa and Green Card applications from those who have used government benefits or may use them in the future. Ted Hesson, an employment and immigration reporter at Politico, spoke to CBSN about the effect this rule would have on low-income families.
The Department of Homeland Security is pressing Congress for more powers to stop malicious drones that could threaten the United States. Intelligence officials are increasingly concerned about the use of drones by terrorists and drug cartels. Only on "CBS This Morning," Jeff Pegues got rare access to drones in action at a Customs and Border Protection facility in Tucson, Arizona.
"You come first," declares the new anchor of the Evening News. "Not advertisers. Not politicians. Not corporate interests — including the new owners of CBS."
Police in Switzerland say a fire at a bar in the Crans-Montana ski resort area is believed to have left about 40 people dead and dozens more injured.
Zohran Mamdani was sworn in early Thursday as the 112th mayor of New York City. The democratic socialist is the city's first Muslim mayor, as well as one of its youngest ever.
"In retrospect, it's too bad I took it because it gave them a little ammunition," President Trump told The Wall Street Journal.
Steep U.S. import duties targeting 13 Italian pasta makers will be sharply reduced, Italy's foreign ministry said on Jan. 1.
Enhanced tax credits that have helped Americans offset the cost of Affordable Care Act health insurance for the last four years expired overnight.
A viral social media video has put Minnesota's long-running fraud scandal at the center of the national conversation. Here's what to know.
The deaths may mark the start of a heavier-handed response by Iran's theocracy over the demonstrations, which have slowed in Tehran but expanded elsewhere.
The woman was a passenger on the Nieuw Statendam cruise ship, which was roughly 40 miles northeast of Sabana, Cuba, when she went overboard, the Coast Guard said.