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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

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• 2026-02-14 14:13 UTC [L..T] What to know about the Homeland Security shutdown «Another shutdown for parts of the federal government has begun as a fight over proposed restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda drags on. [..] Funding for the Department of Homeland Security expired on Saturday. Democrats say they will not help approve more money until the new limits are placed on federal immigration operations after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis last month.»
• 2026-02-13 [L..T] Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts «The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency. [..] In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.»
• 2026-02-04 10:06 UTC [L..T] 'Objectively chilling': Judge stands against 'authoritarian regime,' restrains Noem's officers from firing 'munitions' at Portland ICE protesters «A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Trump administration officers from indiscriminately — and without warning — firing "chemical or projectile munitions" at protesters outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. [..] U.S. District Judge Michael Simon on Tuesday began his 22-page order by describing America as "at a crossroads," and himself as guardian against an "authoritarian regime." [..] The judge offered a full-throated defense of the right to protest President Donald Trump's deportation agenda and to gather news of the government's activities free from "objectively chilling" conduct, like "physically harming protestors and journalists without prior dispersal warnings."»
• 2026-01-30 [L..T] Democrats Cave on Demands for DHS Reforms, Agree to Short-Term Spending Bill «“Until ICE is properly reined in and overhauled legislatively, the DHS funding bill doesn’t have the votes to pass,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said, vowing that his party would filibuster until a deal was reached.» – but then: «Critics have blasted Democrats’ list of demands as weak and ineffectual to begin with, pointing out that they don’t even include a call for federal immigration agents to leave Minneapolis. Notably, ICE is already ignoring dozens of judicial orders, and any reforms included in a new funding bill may be similarly disregarded.»
• 2026-01-29 [L..T] The Disappearances in Minnesota «Right now, all the focus is on competing videos of conflicts involving Alex Pretti and his murderers. [..] But the bulk of kidnapping that proves this is a paramilitary occupation remains disappeared.»
• 2026-01-23 20:52 UTC [L..T] ICE arrests 100 people three days into Maine immigration crackdown, DHS says «In a statement to the Guardian on Friday, the DHS assistant secretary of public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, said some of those taken into custody were “the worst of the worst” and had been “charged and convicted of horrific crimes”, but cited the same four examples it released earlier in the week.» This statement is completely at odds with the facts.
• 2026-01-07 20:35 UTC [L..T] ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It «On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. One of them demanded that the driver "get out of the fucking car," and yanked violently on the driver's-side door handle; another, stationed near the left headlight of the vehicle, drew his pistol. The driver, after briefly reversing, swerved away from the agents, apparently attempting to drive away. As the vehicle moved forward, the agent with the drawn pistol stepped aside while firing three shots directly at the windshield and open driver's-side window, killing the driver.»
• 2025-02-15 01:49 UTC [L..T] DHS cuts at least 405 employees from workforce «The Department of Homeland Security has cut 405 employees from its workforce, a DHS official first told ABC News on Friday. [/] The bulk of the cuts were at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which saw over 200 people cut, and then the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which saw 130 people cut. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services saw under 50 people cut, and DHS Science and Technology Directorate saw 10 people cut.»
• 2016-09-11 [L..T] The TSA is a Waste of Money That Doesn't Save Lives and Might Actually Cost Them “As a test, Homeland Security officials tried to sneak guns and bombs through TSA checkpoints. They succeeded almost every time.”
• 2014-05-26 [L..T] Exclusive: Transgender travelers singled out in TSA screenings, docs show "Department of Homeland Security documents obtained last month reveal details of incidents in which transgender travelers were subjected to heightened scrutiny when passing through airport security checkpoints."