The Latest Breaking News from DHS

Human smugglers at Mexican border won’t be sought after if migrants can come to the U.S. legally.

Nina Jankowicz looks back at how exaggerations and falsehoods stoked so many doubts about the Disinformation Governance Board that DHS paused it after just three weeks.

Nina Jankowicz, the board’s director, resigns and says attacks and threats will not stop her from speaking out on disinformation

The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it would pause the work of a board created to combat disinformation. The board — and its leader — faced an online campaign to discredit its work.

The federal government is warning law enforcement agencies around the nation of the increased potential for extremist violence following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion striking down the constitutional right to abortion

A spokesperson said the board "grossly and intentionally mischaracterized" but DHS will conduct a review.

Threats are “likely to persist and may increase” leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision, the DHS’s intelligence arm said.

And The Washington Post's wildly one-sided account of Jankowicz's fall was an exercise in government PR.

The Department of Homeland Security paused the work of its new disinformation governance board Wednesday

Officials are bracing for violence once the ruling is final.

From Chief Judge Beryl Howell's opinion in Doe v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Security (D.D.C. Mar. 14, 2022): Plaintiff, an attorney, has moved to proceed pseudonymously as he litigates his instant claim under the Freedom of Information Act seeking information from various government agencies about a January 2021 incident, during…