Immigration has been a white-hot political issue for years and helped propel Donald Trump back into the Oval Office. The ...

Oklahoma state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters is suing the secretary of Homeland Security and the U.S. Immigration ...

WASHINGTON — In the waning days of the Biden administration, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his agency's work to tamp down border-crossing numbers and argued against ...

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas poses for a portrait at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7. (Shuran Huang for NPR) Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the waning days of the Biden administration, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his agency’s work to tamp down border-crossing numbers and argued ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who says the border is more secure now than in 2019.