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The man police have charged with using a sledgehammer to decapitate the Iwo Jima memorial statue at Quantico is an illegal immigrant, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security has a message for the latest caravan of approximately 400 to 700 migrants headed north from Mexico’s southern border state of Chiapas. “There is absolutely ZERO chance this caravan will be allowed into the United States,” DHS officials posted in a social media post on X on Wednesday, adding, “We will protect our borders–America is a nation, not an economic zone.” The post DHS: ‘ZERO Chance’ of Latest Caravan Migrants Being Allowed into U.S. appeared first on Breitbart .

With the midterm elections less than two weeks away, a new legal battle is raising questions about the federal government's role in policing who is eligible to vote. A federal judge in California has blocked a Department of Homeland Security effort to identify noncitizens on voter rolls. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports.

A federal judge restricted DHS investigations into suspected noncitizen voting in nine states, citing concerns that the agency's tactics could intimidate eligible voters. Why it matters: With the midterms less than two weeks away, the ruling curtails a central part of the Trump administration's efforts to investigate suspected noncitizen voting. Driving the news: The ruling blocks election-related field operations and interviews under the government's Unlawful Voter Initiative that involve or are likely to involve U.S. citizens. California-based District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín also blocked the administration from conducting operations against likely citizens in those states relying on records generated by its voter-matching policy. Zoom in: Martínez-Olguín wrote in her Wednesday order that the groups that sued provided "substantial evidence" that the government's "intimidating conduct" was "directly interfering with their members' right to encourage voters to participate in the 2026 midterm elections." Her order stated that DHS had compiled a "target list" of individuals from a variety of sources, including state voter rolls and commercial data. But Martínez-Olguín cast doubt on the accuracy of the administration's data, warning of "a high likelihood of error in review because there is no federal database containing citizenship status of U.S. residents." Court filings indicated that officers were ordered to prioritize probes in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. Catch up quick: Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Alex Padilla (Calif.) released a whistleblower report last month alleging that officials had diverted fraud and national security personnel to the Unlawful Voter Initiative using "highly questionable data" and methods. The whistleblower disclosure alleged officers were directed to access sensitive voter information in violation of state laws under minimal training and significant pressure. The other side: "DHS is laser focused on identifying, prosecuting, and removing aliens who vote and dilute the votes of U.S. citizens," a spokesperson told Axios in a statement, adding that the department has "no plans to question or investigate people we believe to be U.S. citizens." Responding to the nonprofits and local government entities that sued, the administration argued in court that DHS " reasonably decided to make use of the best data it had available to it to perform its law enforcement role, notwithstanding that the information may not be perfect in all cases." They also continued that the allegations of voter intimidation were too vague. The White House referred Axios to DHS for comment. Zoom out: Courts have repeatedly blocked the Trump administration's attempts to obtain state voter data , but the administration has pursued suspected noncitizen voting — which is rare — through other means. Last week, the administration sued California and election officials over claims that suspected ineligible voters received mail-in ballots for the election, asking a court to delay about 20,000 voters from having their ballots counted. But as Axios' Brittany Gibson notes , administration-created lists of potential noncitizens on voter rolls have been found less than accurate before, including in Nevada . What we're watching: The administration faces continuing legal challenges to its election-related initiatives ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. On Tuesday, Democratic groups sued the government , accusing it of using unfounded fraud claims as a cudgel to insert itself in administering elections. Go deeper: Trump's October barrage

The judge found the department's field operations to identify noncitizens who voted likely violated the Voting Rights Act, which bars voter intimidation.

A federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden ordered restrictions Wednesday on the Trump administration’s investigation of suspected noncitizen voting in nine states, citing concerns that agents could target American citizens and intimidate voter outreach groups ahead of the midterm elections. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued a preliminary injunction barring Department of Homeland ...

The Department of Homeland Security can't continue its door-knocking and "field interviews" asking about immigration status and if they will vote.

A federal judge ruled that the Department of Homeland Security's zealous pursuit of investigations into noncitizens who are voting in elections has ended up scaring American citizens who fear being swept into the department's net.

A federal judge ruled DHS's practice of knocking on doors and asking people about their immigration status — and whether they have voted in recent elections — likely violates the Voting Rights Act.

The ruling largely blocked homeland security agents from carrying out field interviews in nine states, including California, as part of a sprawling effort to find noncitizens registered to vote.

The Trump administration warned Wednesday that a migrant caravan traveling through southern Mexico would not be allowed into the United States, declaring there was “absolutely ZERO chance” the group would gain entry. The caravan, which departed San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Oct. 13, left the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Tuesday with roughly 500 ...

While the temporary protected status for thousands of Ukrainians has expired, the DHS says they can remain for now. Ukrainian student Mariia Hlyten discusses her unclear future in the U.S.

Everyone arguing about whether Ilhan Omar was 17 or 18 in 2000 is arguing about the easier question. The harder question is 1995: whether the man who naturalized was legally her father. On October 12, agents from Homeland Security Investigations searched Omar’s Washington home on a warrant signed by Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh and left ...