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.

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

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.

I spoke with outgoing DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday about what he learned during his tenure, which included an impeachment battle over his handling of immigration — which passed in the House and was dismissed in the Senate.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Federal officials say ICE arrested 308 people the day after Trump's 2025 inauguration - but that number was comparable to recent years.

The term “illegal alien” is official government terminology again, after the new acting head of the Department of Homeland Security scrapped “confusing” euphemisms like “undocumented noncitizen” and “integration”.