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.

As DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas prepares to leave office, NPR sits down for an exit interview. He tells us the border is more secure now than before the pandemic.

Outgoing Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has a message to Congress and incoming department officials after enduring impeachment and nearly four years in what many deem the hardest job in Washington.

Immigration has been a white-hot political issue for years and helped propel Donald Trump back into the Oval Office. The incoming president has promised mass deportations and is expected to issue a slew of related executive orders soon after being sworn in.

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

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas leaves office as one of President ... years leading the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), culminating in a failed, performative Republican ...

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 ...

A majority of Americans voted in 2024 for President Trump to secure the border and enforce immigration laws. He's ended catch-and-release and unchained ICE from onerous process rules.

After President Donald Trump issued several executive orders related to border security on his first day in office, the Department of Homeland Security began implementing them the same day. Trump was the first president in modern history to declare an invasion at a U.

Within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in as president Monday, a federal phone app used to facilitate illegal entry into the country was terminated. “Effective January 20, 2025, the functionalities of CBP One™ that previously allowed undocumented aliens to submit advance information and schedule appointments at eight southwest border ports of entry is no longer available,