News and reports from the Department of Homeland Security.

News Release: PANAMA CITY – From April 18-20, 2022, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas traveled to Panama City, Panama to attend a Ministerial Conference on Migration and Protection with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and foreign and security ministers from throughout the region. During his ...

News Release: WASHINGTON - Public safety agencies can now benefit from the Team Awareness Kit (TAK) to help save more lives. Originally developed by the Department of Defense (DoD), and subsequently funded and piloted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the iOS iTAK...

Release: WAUSAU Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a handgun from making its way onboard an airplane at Central Wisconsin Airport (CWA) Monday.

News Release: PANAMA CITY - From April 18-20, 2022, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas traveled to Panama City, Panama to attend a Ministerial Conference on Migration and Protection with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and foreign and security ministers from throughout the region. During his...

The US Homeland Security Department published an eight page notice on April 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

ICE HSI probe results in the 5-year prison sentence of a North Texas man for illegally importing methamphetamines

ICE ERO and FBI arrest Colombian fugitive in Massachusetts wanted for murder after 27 years on the run

Dearborn man sentenced to 15 years in prison for distribution of child pornography following ICE HSI investigation

Former University of Michigan professor sentenced on charges of child exploitation of a minor following ICE HSI, local law enforcement assisted investigation

Individual arrested for threats made to schools, businesses following multiagency coordination

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the release of its first-ever DHS Equity Action Plan, which identifies seven focus areas to comprehensively advance equity across the Department’s policies, programs, and operations. This Plan includes a commitment to ensure the Department’s civil rights offices have the resources they need to carry out their critical missions.

News Release: Wally West woke to the sound of gunshots outside of his apartment. Shaking off sleep, the off-duty Transportation Security Officer wondered if the sounds might have come from Fort Chaffee, an Army National Guard installation just a couple miles away.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics from March that show a 33 percent increase in encounters of unlawful migrants at the southern border compared to February and a 78 percent increase from last March as the United States’ worst migrant crisis continues...

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $259,831,989.00 to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) to assist in the acquisition of technical services, in support of S&T’s Counter-Unmanned System Threats (C-UST) efforts. Amentum Services, Inc., of Germantown, MD, was selected as the prime contractor, through DoD’s Fair Opportunity Proposal Request competitive process.

Federal Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle ruled April 18 that the longstanding mask requirement for public transportation was "unlawful," reporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its authority and failed to properly make rules.