Published by the Department of Homeland Security on March 11, 2024.
The budget materials that U.S. Customs and Border Protection sends to Congress each year. (Link at dhs.gov)
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Published by the Department of Homeland Security on March 11, 2024.
The budget materials that U.S. Customs and Border Protection sends to Congress each year. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 22, 2024.
A review of major DHS acquisition programs, including 10 CBP programs supporting border security operations.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 14, 2024.
identifies gaps in DHS’s handling of employee misconduct, particularly in the equitable adjudication between supervisors and non-supervisors. (Link at gao.gov)
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 7, 2024.
Finds that DHS lacked criteria for starting and ending its task forces, and hadn’t set measurable performance goals for them. (Link at gao.gov)
Published by the House Committee on Homeland Security on February 3, 2024.
House Homeland Republicans lay out their case for impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, alleging mismanagement of the border and migration. (Link at house.gov)
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on January 23, 2024.
At ICE’s detention centers, the DHS Inspector-General looked at 6 cases of hysterectomies performed on detained migrant women—and found that 2 were medically unnecessary. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
Excerpts from interviews with Border Patrol sector chiefs. (Link at oversight.house.gov)
Published by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 14, 2024.
In a memo to the Supreme Court, the Solicitor General details what happened after the state of Texas barred the federal Border Patrol from a riverfront park in Eagle Pass. (Link at supremecourt.gov)
Published by Customs and Border Protection on January 11, 2024.
Sets principles for “technical interoperability of relevant sensors and command and control systems” that Border Patrol uses. (Link at cbp.gov)
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on October 10, 2023.
The current status of mobile NII technology and proposals for enhancing it. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on September 25, 2023.
Finds deficiencies and inadequacies in CBP’s video and audio surveillance systems. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
Published by ICE Homeland Security Investigations on September 19, 2023.
Billed as “an intelligence-driven approach to disrupting and dismantling transnational criminal- organizations (TCOs) and keeping dangerous substances, like illicit fentanyl driving the overdose epidemic, off America’s streets.” (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on September 15, 2023.
A court-appointed monitor voices concerns about aspects of CBP’s custody of migrant children, especially short-term separations from parents at times when processing is near capacity. (Link at courtlistener.com)
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on September 15, 2023.
Visits to El Paso CBP holding facilities at a time of high migration found “compliance with standards such as segregating males, females, and juveniles; managing property; providing regularly scheduled meals and showers; and maintaining cleanliness of holding rooms” to be “inconsistent.” (link at oig.dhs.gov)
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on September 12, 2023.
Finds that the DHS intelligence office needs to do more “to protect the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties of U.S. persons.” (Link at gao.gov)
The latest example of House Republicans using the border situation to build a case against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. (Link at homeland.house.gov)
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on September 6, 2023.
DHS is unable to track the whereabouts of asylum seekers and other migrants who get released into the U.S. interior from the border. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on September 5, 2023.
Finds that Trump-era border wall “construction harmed some cultural and natural resources, for example, by blasting at a tribal burial site and altering water flows.” (Link at gao.gov)
Published by CBP on August 30, 2023.
CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility shares a study of corruption cases between 2005 and 2017, along with structured interviews, to determine patterns and causes of corruption. (Link at cbp.gov)
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on August 21, 2023.
A 5-year program plan for DHS with allocations of resource requirements according to the Department’s projected funding. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on August 11, 2023.
A congressionally mandated update about improvements to Border Patrol facilities. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on August 1, 2023.
An update about CBP’s deployment of body-worn cameras and video recording systems. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on June 1, 2023.
A quarterly report to Congress with statistics and other official data about border security and migration. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on May 23, 2023.
A compendium of information about U.S. law enforcement and migration agencies’ activities at the border during the quarter. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on March 27, 2023.
A spending plan for the CBP and ICE “operations and support” accounts. (Link at dhs.gov)