Former South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has started off her first week as Secretary of Homeland Security by posting photos and videos of herself watching ICE raids and announcing the roundup of "dirt bags.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman on Thursday deputized agents and officers at the Justice Department to help in making immigration arrests, creating a force multiplier as President Trump seeks to carry out his promise of mass deportations.

The Department of Homeland Security is allowing certain law enforcement components from the Department of Justice to carry out the "functions" of an immigration officer.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., on Wednesday accused the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of altering a job title to evade a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives issued by President Donald Trump.

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general said Thursday they plan to defend two gun regulations now being challenged in court, including one banning devices that enable semiautomatic guns to fire more quickly.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement say they have been executing enforcement removal operations across the nation targeting convicts or those accused of serious crimes.

Kristi Noem joined the operations just days after she was confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s stepped-up arrests continued Tuesday, with newly sworn-in Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem personally taking part in an operation targeting New York City.

The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.

The Trump administration is removing hundreds of illegal migrants from the United States daily as it follows through on a

The sheer number of federal agencies involved showed Trump’s willingness to use federal law enforcement beyond DHS to carry out his long-promised mass deportations.

ICE agents took at least 20 people into custody early Tuesday morning in the New York City metropolitan area, sources say.