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#DHS

The Department of Homeland Security — the cabinet department overseeing immigration enforcement (ICE, CBP), FEMA, and domestic security operations. Incidents involve DHS actions, policy directives, and oversight failures.

3 incidents

Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern

Judge Holds DHS in Contempt Twice for Deporting Protected Young Asylum Seekers, Including One Teen Deported to El Salvador Twice

A Trump-appointed federal judge twice held DHS in contempt in 2026 for deporting young asylum seekers protected by a court settlement: at least 107 removals found in July, then the second deportation to El Salvador of the same 19-year-old in September, after he had already been returned once. DHS blamed 'communication errors.'

Grade 2 of 5: Major Abuse of Power

2019 Flores Replacement Rule: An Attempt to Authorise Prolonged Detention of Migrant Children With Their Families

The first Trump administration wrote a regulation to end the court settlement that limits how long migrant children can be detained, so that families could be held together in ICE-licensed facilities for the length of their cases. Federal courts blocked the family-detention provisions before they took effect, holding that they contradicted the settlement's core presumption in favour of release.