The Department of Homeland Security issued two memos late Monday to repeal limits on federal immigration enforcement, and demanding a review on parole use.
Promises of an immigration crackdown by President Donald Trump through his election campaign are now underway.
The Trump administration has reversed longstanding policies that limited immigration enforcement in sensitive locations such as schools and churches.
Federal agents are investigating after a US Border Patrol agent was shot and killed Monday afternoon on the highway in Vermont.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Department of Homeland Security secretary, vowed Friday to immediately halt the mobile app that lets migrants register to enter the US.
In a press release, the directives were said to be "essential to ending the invasion of the US southern border and empower law enforcement to protect Americans."
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told lawmakers that she intends to end the use of the CBP One on the first day the Trump administration.
Within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in as president, a federal phone app used to facilitate illegal entry into the country was terminated Monday.
The order for DHS employees to return to work falls in tandem with Trump’s mass deportation plan announced in his inaugural address Monday
Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to target schools and churches after President Donald Trump revoked a directive barring arrests in “sensitive” areas.
President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be the next Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, promised to shut down on her first day in office CBP One, an app used by migrants to legally request asylum from outside the U.
The directives - which direct immigration officials to use “common sense” - are a departure from a long-standing policy.