Brittany Gibson

Data: CBP; Map: Erin Davis/Axios VisualsA West Texas revolt is erasing hundreds of miles of President Trump's planned border wall.Why it matters: The opposition in the Big Bend sector, which includ...

If you're an immigrant worker in the U.S. right now, you've got a better shot landing a visa as a farmer than a tech worker, researcher, doctor or nurse.Why it matters: The Trump administration's c...

Several school systems in areas targeted most aggressively by President Trump's immigration crackdowns have seen dramatic increases in student absences, Axios has found.Why it matters: Enrollment d...

More than 450 TSA agents have quit in the nearly six weeks since the partial government shutdown began, resulting in the "highest wait times in history," a top Department of Homeland Security offic...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is on track to leave dozens of pending contracts on her desk when she leaves office in three weeks, the legacy of a system she imposed to cut "waste, fraud a...

President Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday after he consulted allies and advisers — all of whom told him it was time for her to go, sources tell Axios."She burnt up a...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is threatening to disrupt Senate business over Kristi Noem's leadership at the Department of Homeland Security.Why it matters: Tillis, who is not running for re-election, ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's plan to use border funds for an almost $300 million luxury jet fleet has horrified top Trump officials, Axios has learned.Why it matters: Until last year, ...

The next big phase of President Trump's mass deportations is set to begin as "deportation judges" turn to 3.6 million backlogged cases.Why it matters: Speeding up immigration court rulings could al...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has upended DHS staffing in her first year, pairing high-level leadership ousters with a growing staff exodus.Why it matters: Multiple reports describe a cul...

The Department of Homeland Security is rushing to fulfill President Trump's mass deportation goals, and its haste has led to high-profile deportation screwups.Why it matters: The high-visibility en...

ICE is preparing to spend $38 billion this year on a "new detention center model" holding nearly 100,000 people.Why it matters: Expanding immigration detention is a major part of the deportation pi...

President Trump's top immigration enforcement officials on Tuesday defended their officers before a House panel whose members grilled the officials on their agencies' heavy-handed tactics.Why it ma...

Multiple segments of border wall construction are being held up by lack of final sign-off from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Axios has learned from two sources familiar with the delays.W...

A massive buyer has entered the market for commercial warehouses, sparking furious local protests:The Department of Homeland Security has scouted dozens of locations to retrofit into ICE detention ...

For the second time in less than a month, President Trump's top officials rushed to declare that a U.S. citizen killed by U.S. immigration agents was a "domestic terrorist."Why it matters: The Trum...

ICE agents' detention of a 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis this week has inflamed an already tense debate over immigration authorities' tactics — and put a spotlight on the unknown number of children...

In just one year, President Trump has blocked millions of immigrants from entry, tightened rules that penalize people who might need government assistance, and revoked protections for immigrants al...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is going all-in to defend immigration officers who've detained U.S. citizens, even as the number of incidents continues to rise. Why it matters: The governme...

Support for President Trump's immigration crackdown is unraveling quickly and reviving Democratic opposition on an issue that helped decide the last election.Why it matters: Border chaos under form...

Former prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys are alarmed by the Trump administration's "highly unusual" decision to kick local investigators off the probe into the deadly ICE shooting in Minne...