Border Security

The future of Border Patrol: AI is always watching

Human rights advocates warn of algorithmic bias, legal violations, and other dire consequences of relying on AI to monitor the border.

  • Monique O. Madan, The Markup

Tech questions at the border

Critics say the Customs and Border Protection app CBP One is glitchy and unfair to migrants.

  • Natalie Alms

Lawmakers debate the role of an overworked and under-resourced FEMA

Despite some hiring success, FEMA is taking on more tasks while operating at 65% capacity.

  • Eric Katz

Biden uses State of the Union to paint Republicans as barriers

The president scolded former President Trump and House GOP lawmakers for scuttling a bipartisan plan to boost border agency staffing, and frequently touted governmental investments enacted without Republican support.

  • Erich Wagner

DHS to slash operations, reshuffle workforce without additional funds, agency warns

The department becomes the latest in the Biden administration to sound the alarm over the impact of budget shortfalls.

  • Eric Katz

Senate rejects border-related federal hiring surge after Republicans turn on deal

The $118 billion personnel, border security, immigration reform and foreign aid measure collapsed just days after it came together.

  • Eric Katz
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Hiring and pay reforms accompany staffing surges in bipartisan border deal

After months of negotiations, Senate group unveils measure to ramp up border security, provide foreign aid and largely meet President Biden's request for thousands of new federal employees.

  • Eric Katz

House panel approves DHS secretary’s impeachment as Senate nears deal to surge his staffing

Republicans get one step close to taking the second-ever such vote.

  • Eric Katz

House GOP is obstructing progress at the border by blocking staffing surge, White House says

Republicans move forward with DHS secretary impeachment proceedings as the administration engages in border negotiations.

  • Eric Katz

DHS warns it’s running low on funds and borrowing personnel to manage border

As the number of migrants arriving at the border climbs, federal personnel are becoming overwhelmed.

  • Eric Katz

With congressional deal elusive, Biden administration ramps up border closures

DHS will reassign officers to assist Border Patrol in taking migrants into custody.

  • Eric Katz

Biden, Democrats push for DHS hiring spree despite failed supplemental vote

Republicans block measure with aid to Ukraine and Israel, as well as billions of dollars for massive DHS hiring.

  • Eric Katz

Biden administration defends substantial immigration hiring surge as Congress debates emergency spending

Republicans say a more robust package is required to address the southern border.

  • Eric Katz
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Biden seeks federal hiring surge in new $100B emergency funding request

A variety of agencies would collectively add nearly 6,000 employees if Congress provides the supplemental funding.

  • Eric Katz

Senate inches closer toward stopgap passage, though a plan to avoid shutdown remains out of reach

Republicans in the Senate look to assuage House counterparts, but it may already be too late to avert federal employee furloughs in two days.

  • Eric Katz

Agencies ramp up shutdown prep as Congress hurtles toward deadline

The White House has kicked off official shutdown planning efforts.

  • Eric Katz

Biden's immigration policies are working, officials say, though workforces are being stretched thin

Immigration agencies say they are hanging on, for now.

  • Eric Katz

Biden border policies ripped by House GOP as threats to impeach the Homeland Security secretary ramp up

House Republicans hold multiple hearings about immigration at Southern border as part of broader strategy to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas.

  • Ariana Figueroa, Idaho Capital Sun

Pay raise and staffing surge at the border advance at Senate panel

Bipartisan bills would approve a 14% pay bump for some personnel.

  • Eric Katz

Homeland Security law enforcement officers would receive more mental health support, under a bill advancing in the House

Bipartisan legislation reported out of committee earlier this week comes in the wake of an uptick of suicides among border personnel. 

  • Amelia Gruber

NDAA amendment calls for DOD, DHS to assess cyber threats to border security

Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, said his proposal “sets a plan to prevent cyber incidents by reducing the risk of future cyber vulnerabilities” in key border technologies.

  • Edward Graham