The Trump administration is empowering law enforcement agents across the Department of Justice (DOJ) with immigration enforcement authorities. A new

The directive allows federal law enforcement agents to carry out immigration-related enforcement actions that are usually reserved for officials under DHS.

Kristi Noem joined the operations just days after she was confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

The Department of Homeland Security is allowing certain law enforcement components from the Department of Justice to carry out the "functions" of an immigration officer.

The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman on Thursday deputized agents and officers at the Justice Department to help in making immigration arrests, creating a force multiplier as President Trump seeks to carry out his promise of mass deportations.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s stepped-up arrests continued Tuesday, with newly sworn-in Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem personally taking part in an operation targeting New York City.

Top Trump administration officials visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, appointed by President Donald Trump, will oversee the efforts of the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshall Service, and federal prosecutors.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling spoke out Tuesday on immigration enforcement in the city.

The executive branch is allowed to move money appropriated by Congress from one agency to another within a department, and this Trump administration would not be the first to do so in order to make up for an ICE budget shortfall.

Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city.