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Harvard University has sued the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, and the Department of Justice in response to the Trump administration’s attempt to block the Ivy League school from enrolling international students. “This revocation is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the …

The Department of Homeland Security oversees tens of thousands of arrests and detentions in the United States every year. It should go without saying that the department is responsible for ensuring that anyone in its custody is treated in accordance with the Constitution. It has long been clear that Homeland …

Senators grilled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem today over her management of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and how the agency — which President Donald Trump has sought to dismantle — is responding to a series of devastating storms across the southern United States. During a hearing of the …

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The leader of the Trump administration’s deportation push had a lot to answer for. In a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, Democrats grilled Noem about the arrest of Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka; the …

Donald Trump’s White House social media accounts posted an image of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the administration illegally deported to a prison in El Salvador, in the blue-and-red theme of President Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. Instead of the word “HOPE,” it says “MS-13.” “Ah yes, a true classic. We …

Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been the most chaotic and consequential in modern political memory. He has wielded the presidency like a king, seeking to bend America (and, far less successfully, the world) to his will. The result has been about what you’d expect from the first convicted felon …

President Donald Trump’s administration used his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to shutter the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which investigated allegations of abuse against migrants in the department’s custody. Recently, the Trump administration moved to raid the DHS civil rights office’s coffers …

It’s very important to the Trump administration that the government spend huge taxpayer dollars on ads that repeatedly thank Donald Trump while warning immigrants to leave or stay out of America. There was such “an unusual and compelling urgency” for this propaganda campaign that it could not be subject to …

I remember returning from serving in support of the Iraq War, while my ship was undergoing a maintenance period, and seeing news of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal breaking on CNN. The scandal was the worst thing to happen to the U.S. Army since the Vietnam War. Sitting on my …

John Oliver opened Last Week Tonight on Sunday by assailing officials in the Trump administration for Signalgate and its handling of mass deportations, labeling them “ deeply unserious people doing deeply stupid things with massively serious consequences.”  ”It’s true, they put a journalist in their group chat,” Oliver said, “something [Jeffrey] …