Department of Homeland Security employee morale is significantly better as Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas leaves office. Will that continue under Donald Trump?

Mayorkas, who said he plans to stay on the job until Monday at noon, told ABC News he has had "substantive and very productive and very collegial" conversations with Trump's pick to be the new DHS secretary, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas blessed his employees with another three days of taxpayer-funded vacation time, bringing his four-year total to more than six weeks — the equivalent of $3 billion — of bonus time off.

The Department of Homeland Security issued two memos late Monday to repeal limits on federal immigration enforcement, and demanding a review on parole use.

The newly confirmed DHS secretary slammed her predecessor Alejandro Mayorkas for tying the Trump administration’s hands.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during an interview with McClatchy Chief Washington Correspondent Michael Wilner at DHS headquarters on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Whitney Shefte/Special for the Miami Herald

Outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas ... "we can disagree with civility and mutual respect." Mayorkas' time as DHS secretary saw one crisis after another, including big ...

Outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, who for four years has been ... He said his hope is that "we can disagree with civility and mutual respect." Mayorkas' time as DHS secretary saw one crisis after another, including big increases ...

The people of this country want these dirtbags out,” Noem told “Fox and Friends” of a prominent Venezuelan gang.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revoked a decision protecting 600,000 Venezuelans from deportation, reversing an extension of Temporary Protected Status made by Alejandro Mayorkas during the Biden administration.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday (Jan. 25, 20250, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and President Donald Trump’s plans to clamp down on illegal immigration.

Benjamine Huffman, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, on Thursday issued a finding calling for an immediate federal response to combat an "actual or imminent mass influx ...