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  Homeland Security Agents Forced Ex-Prisoner to Sell Seized Drugs as Side Hustle: FBI

  Two Department of Homeland Security agents in Utah have been arrested for allegedly forcing a confidential informant to sell bath salts.

• Trump Administration To Create New Cybersecurity Framework For Agencies

  Trump administration will develop metrics to track federal agencies’ implementation of a federal cybersecurity framework, according to a White House adviser.

• US arrests 21 people for visa fraud via bogus university sting

  Twenty-one people who allegedly helped more than 1,000 foreign nationals fraudulently obtain student visas were arrested this morning by federal agents in a nationwide sweep.

• US lawyer sued by Mexican man over forging immigration document

  A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney was charged on Wednesday. Authorities say he forged a document to make it look like a Mexican citizen who wanted to stay in the United State was not eligible to do so.

• California shooter was not fully investigated before U.S. visa was issued

  U.S. authorities in Pakistan could have sought - but did not - a full background security investigation of San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik before granting her a visa to enter the United States in 2014, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.

• Republicans to keep up immigration fight after court ruling

  Conservatives in the U.S. Congress, emboldened by a federal judge's action, say they will renew their assault on President Barack Obama's immigration orders next week, even if it heightens the risk of a partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown on Feb. 27.

• Boehner ready to let funding lapse for Homeland Security agency

  John Boehner, the Republican House of Representatives speaker, said he is willing to let funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapse as part of a Republican push to roll back President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration.

• U.S. Congress questions plan to admit Syrian refugees

  The Republican-led House Committee on Homeland Security is challenging an Obama administration plan to admit Syrian refugees to the United States, saying it could allow potential terrorists to sneak into the country.

• Republican Boehner tries to avoid spending fight on immigration

  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner urged fellow Republicans on Tuesday to pass a long-term government spending bill next week, hoping to avoid a government shutdown and pushing any budget fight over President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration into 2015.

• U.S. investigator of Colombia scandal quits over prostitution case: NYT

  A U.S. Department of Homeland Security official who ran an investigation of a prostitution scandal involving Secret Service agents in Colombia in 2012 resigned after he was suspected of visiting a prostitute in Florida, the New York Times reported.

• California mayor vocal in immigration debate suspected of drunken driving

  The mayor of Murrieta, California, who led a local backlash against the arrival of undocumented Central American immigrants flooding the U.S. border, has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in an accident that injured four teenagers.

• Obama hangs tough on migrant detention despite slowing influx

  The surge in child migration from Central America is receding but the United States is aggressively pushing ahead with plans to expand detentions, a little-publicized part of a broader campaign to deter illegal migrants.

• Homeland Security chief appoints Secret Service review panel

  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Friday named four people to conduct an independent review of the Secret Service after a series of security breaches including a fence jumper who got into the White House last month.

• Secret Service in disarray, fueling questions over Obama's safety

  When Secret Service officer Timothy McCarthy took a bullet to protect Ronald Reagan in a 1981 assassination attempt and agent Jerry Parr shoved the president into a limousine, their quick reflexes projected a Hollywood-style image of invincibility around the agency.

• Secret Service director resigns under fire

  U.S. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned under fire on Wednesday after a series of security lapses came to light that exposed gaping holes in the protective cocoon around President Barack Obama.

• U.S. Border Patrol, under fire for use of force, to trial body cameras

  The U.S. Border Patrol said body cameras would be trialled for its agents from next month following allegations over abuse and use of excessive force, as Washington gave the agency authority to investigate staff for criminal misconduct.

• White House intruder was armed with knife: officials

  The Texas man arrested on Friday for charging at the White House was armed with a knife when he climbed a fence and made it into the executive mansion after President Barack Obama had departed, the U.S. Attorney's Office said on Saturday.

• Drug Smuggling: Feds Discover New Tunnel On U.S.-Mexico Border Linking Tijuana To San Diego (Video)

  A drug smuggling border tunnel equipped with a rail system and air conditioning, was discovered linking San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico this week, U.S. authorities said