The president, unlike his subordinates, admits that family separation was a deliberate policy aimed at deterring illegal border crossing.
Plus: Facebook says it's pivoting to privacy, and congressional Democrats want to "save the internet."
Nine women face felony prostitution charges and hundreds of their customers have been arrested. Florida says it's the real victim.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown talks about DHS's "Blue Campaign," which is pushing hotel and airline workers to call the feds if they suspect human trafficking.
How big hotel chains became arms of the surveillance state.
If Trump wants to negotiate good deals for taxpayers, he should start putting some pressure on his old nemesis: the National Football League.
The bill would likely stop Trump from using the "military version of eminent domain."
"Our Border Patrol stations were built decades ago to handle mostly male single adults in custody, not families and children."
Trump's chief of staff was there to add a veneer of respectability to some of the president's worst positions.
Children imprisoned longer than legal limit, resources directed away from actual border security, misleading statements about databases all surround the "zero tolerance" border policy
"These of course are not dangerous," the TSA admits. So why did they seize them?
A 10-year veteran of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, Ortiz is also a "serial murderer" say Texas authorities.
Michael Chertoff gets a post at Freedom House.
Air marshals have snooped on about 5,000 of us since March-and not because they suspected any of those people of specific crimes.
The Trump administration is right to push the streamlining various parts of the executive branch.
Trump can't escape responsibility for the predictably cruel consequences of his "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
Innocent kids will likely bear a terrible cost to "make America great again."
A new report documents the Border Patrol's interference with humanitarian work.
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The fate of the popular adult ad platform remains unclear after a raid on Eros' North Carolina servers.
New AI tools could empower the government to violate our civil liberties.
As America deals with terrorist attacks and mass shootings, DHS and the FBI are busy enforcing misdemeanor vice laws.
Massage-parlor panic is crushing small businesses, civil liberties, and people's lives. Here are eight examples from October.
DHS ends waiver of protectionist shipping law that drives up costs.
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Government's thirst to know more about you is unquenchable.
Congress moves to grant Trump administration vast new policing powers, because "sex trafficking."
Homeland Security officials seize and snoop into thousands of phones and laptops without any evidence of criminal activity.
How the TSA turned a long-time, trusted employee into an "insider threat" for no clear reason.
The law must be followed, even if breaking the law actually makes people safer.
Another nugget of privacy threatened in the name of national security.
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The Department of Homeland Security is replacing its laptop ban with more sweeping security measures for all U.S.-bound flights.
The Department of Homeland Security makes terrorism more effective by exaggerating the threat it poses.
'It can happen, almost here, at any time' John Kelly tells Fox.
Bill would keep states and cities from restraining police cooperation.
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What do you get when four people die in your jail? A job in the Trump administration.
Another judge rules that behaving legally is no protection from being targeted by law enforcement.
John Kelly wants us to know that he and Jeff Sessions see eye to eye on the perils of pot.
Secretary John Kelly wants you to know that the problem is you, not them.
Have a friend visiting from another country? DHS wants to know your connections.
But not a single American will be any safer.
A viral tale of Alaska Airlines staff saving a sex-trafficked teen turns out to be propaganda for federal immigration enforcement.
Virginia is asking a federal court to force Homeland Security to prove it complied with orders to allow lawyers access to detainees.
Department of Homeland Security
More ignorance from the anti-gun left.
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Homeland Security was defined-down even further in the form of a raid on a Kansas City lingerie shop over possible copyright infringement.
We're not any safer, just more miserable.
So terrorism is solved, right?
Korean spas in New York City are the latest target of our national vice squad.
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