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Julia Ainsley
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I am NBC News’ Senior Homeland Security Correspondent covering all activities of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. My coverage areas include immigration enforcement, counterterrorism, the Secret Service and drug trafficking across U.S borders.
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WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have launched a new inquiry into outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s top aide, Corey Lewandowski, who allegedly sought personal payments from contractors, as was outlined in an NBC News investigation last week.
The agents are not trained to work airport security and are working exits and entrances, but critics say the armed officers are instilling fear in American travelers.
The White House border czar said agents will deploy to airports across the country Monday to assist TSA officers with security at airport entrances and exits where lines have been particularly long in recent weeks.
Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.
Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol agent who became the face of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, will retire at the end of the month, sources say.
Camp East Montana in Fort Bliss, the nation's largest detention center, has had a troubled history with three detainee deaths and outbreaks of tuberculosis and measles.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has peppered aides in recent days about whether longtime adviser Corey Lewandowski profited personally from a $220 million federal advertising campaign featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was fired last week, according to three people familiar with his conversations.
Trump was already frustrated with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Her performance at two congressional hearings this week is what cost her the job, sources say.
President Donald Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, making her the first Cabinet secretary to leave her post and capping off a tumultuous year in which she oversaw his increasingly unpopular mass deportation agenda
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem handpicked contractors to lead a $100 million campaign to recruit ICE officers instead of allowing competitive bidding, sources say NBC News.
