Rebecca Santana

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TSA

Airport security is poised to finally move on from post-9/11 era but ‘the devil is going to be in the details’

By Rebecca Santana, Wyatte Grantham-Philips, and others

Kristi Noem

Travel & Leisure

The airport security revolution gathers pace as Kristi Noem questions ‘everything TSA does’

By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press

Mile Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security

An ex-Homeland Security official under Trump wrote an anonymous op-ed blasting the president. Now he says there’s been an ‘implosion in our lives’

By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press

ICE agents

ICE announces a leadership shake-up as the Trump administration sets a goal of 3,000 arrests per day

By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press

Afrikaner refugees from South Africa holding American flags arrive, Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump says administration welcomed 59 white South Africans as refugees because of ‘genocide that’s taking place’

By Matthew Lee, Rebecca Santana, and others

People line up to apply for Real ID at a Real ID Supercenter in downtown Chicago, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Travel & Leisure

Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem says travelers without REAL ID can fly for now, but may have to deal with extra screening

By Rebecca Santana, Olga R. Rodriguez, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 29: U.S. President Donald Trump walks toward members of the media prior to answering questions before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump will travel to Michigan for a 100th Day in Office rally. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump is offering $1,000 stipends to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who deport themselves

By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press

New York City Mayor Eric Adams takes his seat at the witness table during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing with Sanctuary City Mayors on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

GOP Congress members hammer mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York over ‘sanctuary city’ policies

By Rebecca Santana, Tim Sullivan, and others

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers use a chain to more comfortably restrain a detained person using handcuffs positioned in front, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

ICE officers say ‘worst’ criminal migrants will still go first but now that collateral arrests are allowed ‘nobody gets a free pass anymore’

By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press

FILE – A Border Patrol agent and volunteer Karen Parker escort asylum seeker Arelis Alonzo, of Guatemala, to a nearby van, to be processed in San Diego, June 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Trump plans to hit Mexico and Canada with tariffs over immigration. Here’s what the numbers say about border crossings, drugs and crime

By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press

FILE – U.S. Secret Service agents respond as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded on stage by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Senate panel finds Secret Service failures before Trump shooting were preventable

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Rebecca Santana, and others

U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe, left, and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate are sworn in before they testify before a Joint Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing examining the security failures leading to the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 30, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Secret Service acting director says he is ‘ashamed’ over Trump shooting and blames agency’s ‘failure to challenge our assumptions’

By Eric Tucker, Farnoush Amiri, and others

Secret Service agents

Secret Service investigates how gunman got so close to Trump as Biden orders independent review

By Rebecca Santana, Michael Biesecker, and others

A person waves a Cuban flag during a gathering marking International Workers’ Day at Jose Marti<br />
Anti-Imperialist Square in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Ley)

U.S. is letting independent Cuban entrepreneurs open and access American bank accounts to boost private enterprise on island

By Fatima Hussein, Andrea Rodriguez, and others

Nasa rocket at launch pad

Want a career in the U.S. government? These are the best and worst agencies to work at, according to a survey of over 1 million federal employees

By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press