Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

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Mayorkas details DHS workforce gains, future plans

DHS improved in the 2023 Best Places to Work rankings. In a sit-down interview, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tells Federal News Network how it happened.

Workforce

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, right, and Mayor Michael Nutter, left, listen to Department of Justice’s Ronald Davis, director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) speak during a news conference Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, in Philadelphia. Justice Department officials are praising the Philadelphia Police Department for its progress in implementing reforms after a federal probe on deadly force. The report issued in May found the department's use of deadly force was motivated by fear and affected mostly black citizens. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Workforce

At TSA and across DHS, employees prepare to work without pay under government shutdown

Government Shutdown

With IRA investment, DHS to break ground on new CISA, ICE headquarters in 2024

Facilities/Construction

FILE - A U.S. government-built section of border wall snakes through the Sonoran Desert just west of the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, separating Mexico, left, and the United States, Dec. 9, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. A prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at a criminal trial, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, that there is overwhelming evidence that organizers of a

You bet morale is sinking for Homeland Security employees on the southwest border

Workforce

ICE acting director announces his retirement

Federal Newscast

How a few agency leaders are defining, measuring ‘meaningful’ in-person work

Workforce

With the right tools, there’s no compelling reason for everyone to get back into the office

Workforce

FILE - Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas, May 2, 2019. A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporter, according to a federal watchdog. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Customs and Border Protection has a new job position designed to smooth ruffled feathers

Defense

Long-term implications of AFGE’s ‘difficult decision’ to disclaim ICE officers’ union chapter

Unions

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2020, file photo a U.S. Department of Homeland Security plaque is displayed a podium as international passengers arrive at Miami international Airport where they are screened by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Miami. The damned-if-you-pay-damned-if-you-don’t dilemma on ransomware payments has left U.S. officials fumbling about how to respond. While the Biden administration “strongly discourages” paying, it recognizes that failing to pay would be suicidal for some victims. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

FOIA advisers recommend independent review into how DHS handles immigration record requests

Agency Oversight

A spurned federal landlord persists until it has a day in court

All the General Services Administration was trying to do was get new office space for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Rhode Island. But, in a word,…

Acquisition Policy

DHS privacy chief aims to promote ‘privacy enhancing technologies’

DHS’s privacy chief wants to make privacy less of an afterthought by designing systems with technologies to protect the confidentiality and integrity of…

Agency Oversight

Calling all zero trust experts, ICE is looking for your help

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it requires the expertise and analysis of industry-leading zero Trust analysts, consultants and practitioners to meet the new White House requirements.