A federal judge says a 2-year-old Louisiana girl and U.S. citizen may have been deported to Honduras this week with her mother and 11-year-old sister without due process, according to court documents obtained by CBS News. In an order Friday, Judge Terry Doughty for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana wrote…
Washington — The Justice Department told a federal judge Friday that it is unable to provide information she requested about a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador and called a deadline set by the judge to provide the details “impracticable.” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Trump administration to give her information about…
The Trump administration on Friday said it accidentally told some Ukrainians refugees they needed to leave the U.S. immediately because their legal status was being revoked, telling CBS News the message was sent by mistake. Some Ukrainians who had entered the U.S. under the Biden administration following Russia’s invasion of their homeland received emails this…
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the United States. The tour included two crowded cell blocks, the armory and an isolation unit. Noem’s trip to the prison — where inmates…
Washington — The Trump administration is implementing a reduction in force for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, effectively gutting the department’s civil rights and immigration liaison services. DHS said the offices “often…
Kristi Noem says she will use “every single one” of “extensive” authorities as DHS secretary – CBS News Watch CBS News Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the authorities that she has are “broad and extensive” as she discusses her plans at the helm of the agency. Be…
The Department of Homeland Security is administering polygraph tests to its personnel to determine who may be leaking information to the media about its ongoing immigration raids, an agency spokesperson confirmed to CBS News Saturday. On Feb. 18, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said DHS would start polygraphing employees in order to crack down on…
A former government official who says she was falsely accused of illegally sending funds to New York City to book luxury hotels for undocumented migrants — and then publicly ridiculed and fired — said Thursday that just days earlier she had been directed by a member of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, known…
The Trump administration is threatening to punish some immigrants in the U.S. illegally with criminal penalties, including jail time and fines, if they fail to sign up for a government registry, as it ramps up its far-reaching immigration crackdown. The move, announced Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security, applies to immigrants over the age…
Washington — Caleb Vitello, the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is being reassigned amid internal frustrations over the agency’s progress in carrying out President Trump’s mass deportation goals, administration officials told CBS News on Friday. In a statement, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed Vitello’s reassignment, saying he “is no…