TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance is using H-1B guest worker visas to get some of its employees into the United States. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has expressed concerns about who those employees are and whether they could help the Chinese Communist Party access sensitive user information. “This threatens the safety and security of American citizens,…

The Border Patrol took in more than 300,000 immigrants in El Paso, Texas, last fiscal year. That’s more than a third of the surrounding county’s population. It’s an influx that overwhelmed the area and led to migrants sleeping on the streets. But the Border Patrol, city and county governments were quick to act and each…

Earlier this year the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a controversial “Disinformation Governance Board” (DGB) designed to “coordinate department activities related to disinformation aimed at the U.S. population.” Months later, after Republican attacks on the board’s leader, Nina Jankowicz, the DGB was disbanded. Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten argues there are other Biden-led…

Montana’s attorney general wants YouTube to restore some videos that the streaming giant removed. Austin Knudsen said some Democratic lawmakers and others in the federal government are pressuring YouTube to routinely remove politically unfavorable speech. The Montana attorney general sent a letter Wednesday to YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, expressing his concern over YouTube’s removal of…

A new record has been set at the southern border, as the Department of Homeland Security revealed Border Patrol agents encountered more than 2.3 million immigrants in the 2022 fiscal year. It’s a 37% increase compared to last year and more than five times the number of encounters from 2020. Customs and Border Protection said…

The Department of Homeland Security was founded after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001. The goal of the agency was to prevent another terrorist attack. However, as the war on terror wound down, DHS has found new targets to investigate: Americans on social media. Reporting by The Intercept shows DHS started to shift its…

According to a report from NBC News, the Biden administration is considering expanding capacity at a prison at Guantanamo Bay to house Haitian migrants. Citing two U.S. officials and an internal planning document, NBC News reported the administration was also considering holding migrants in a third country. The considerations are in preparation for a potential…

The number of illegal border crossings by Venezuelan immigrants has fallen from 1,200 a day early in October to just 150 a day in the wake of new rules implemented by the Biden administration. Now according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, tens of thousands are stranded in Mexico sleeping on the streets,…

For nearly 60 years, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has allowed citizens and journalists to access records from any U.S. government agency. The ACLU recently used FOIA requests as part of investigation into the Department of Homeland Security for allegedly using cellphone data to track Americans. But Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten warns…

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $699,763 grant to a joint venture to investigate the rise of extremism in gaming. “Over the past decade, video games have increasingly become focal points of social activity and identity creation for adolescents and young adults. Relationships made and fostered within game ecosystems routinely cross over into…