#Department of Homeland Security

A vehicle-mounted Active Denial System, the U.S. military's directed-energy "heat ray," in an Air Force photograph from 2007.

Pentagon lends its "heat ray" to Homeland Security for seven months of testing at the southern border

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse at 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan, seat of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, photographed in 2012.

A judge froze the $20 million government ad campaign starring Trump — the spending had already passed $21 million

The west facade of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk, in 2011.

Supreme Court lets third-country deportations resume and will hear the case in December

The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, seat of the First Circuit Court of Appeals, in September 2024.

Appeals court ban on third-country deportations takes effect, and the administration runs to the Supreme Court

The west facade of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk in 2011.

Supreme Court lets states check voter rolls against the rebuilt SAVE database before November

Court blocks the rule that would have capped foreign students at four years in the United States

President Donald Trump's official portrait, released by the White House in 2025. His administration's new public charge rule took effect on September 18, 2026.

Twenty-two states and Washington, D.C. sue to stop the public charge rule now in force

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers make an arrest during a vehicle stop in Manassas, Virginia, in April 2022. Archive photo; not the Austin incident.

Immigration enforcement

ICE agent shoots Venezuelan delivery driver in Austin, and the government's account clashes with his lawyer's