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Anti-Israel Columbia protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi fights deportation to Jordan

Mahdawi, who was arrested last April for undermining US foreign policy and government counter-antisemitism efforts with his pro-Palestinian campus activism, had been ordered removed to Jordan.

Demonstrators hold placards that read "Free Mohsen" in reference to Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, who was detained, as they gather at Foley Square in Manhattan, New York City, US, April 15, 2025.
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Iraq World Cup star Aymen Hussein detained at Chicago airport, team photographer barred

The badges of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are seen as they patrol the halls of immigration court at the Ted Weiss Federal Building on May 12, 2026 in New York City.

ICE will be at World Cup, but not to ‘round up’ migrants, DHS chief says

  ICE agents patrol around BWI Airport on March 30, 2026 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Family seized again after court-ordered release in Colorado immigration case


Homeland Sec. issues recommendations to protect religious communities

'The targeting of houses of worship by violent extremists of any ideology is particularly abhorrent and must be prevented.'

A man holds a sign outside the home of rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey

U.S. uses fake university to fight visa fraud, 100s of students arrested

"ICE is setting up fake universities to trap students. Yet we were called radical for opposing it," tweeted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

ICE officers carry out a raid

Hand-drawn swastika found in Department of Homeland Security headquarters

The Nazi symbol was discovered on the building’s third floor on Friday. CNN first reported the incident.

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What's the story of Homeland Security tracking U.S. domestic terror?

Six months after the worst attack on Jews in U.S. history, the Trump administration shut down a unit tracking domestic terrorism. Dig a little, however, and it’s a more complicated picture.

A U.S. Homeland Security Protective Service truck parks outside the Jacob Javits Federal office building in New York, October 29, 2014

Jewish member quits U.S. Homeland Security council amid refugee crisis

Elizabeth Holtzman, a one-time New York Democrat, was among four members of the council who stepped down.

Immigrant children, many of whom have been separated from their parents under a new "zero tolerance" policy by the Trump administration, are being housed in tents next to the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, U.S. June 18, 2018.

Jewish groups get security funding despite talk of rollbacks

The Department of Homeland Security disbursed the funding last week, the vast majority of which goes to Jewish institutions.+

Rabbi Menachem Genack (left) and Rabbi Moshe Elefant of the Orthodox Union