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The Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025 (S.3283) is a Senate bill introduced December 1, 2025 that, in its text, would bar U.S. citizens from simultaneously holding foreign citizenship and would create ...
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded for , not for participation in aerial flight, and may be issued for actions against an enemy, in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force,...
The abolished the Immigration and Naturalization Service and folded its functions into a new , splitting immigration and customs roles into three principal DHS components—, , and —while also absorbing...
NSPM‑7, titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” directs a whole‑of‑government push to identify, investigate and disrupt “networks, entities, and organizations” alleged...
The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) and added penalties that materially changed asylum seekers’ legal landscape in the United States, most notably by introduc...
Advance planning for is a structured, interagency process led by the when an event is designated a , and it combines statutory authorities, formal threat assessments, site surveys, and scalable incide...
The statutory backbone of ICE’s detention authority is the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), primarily 8 U.S.C. §§ 1226, 1226(c), 1231 and 1357, which authorize administrative arrests and detenti...
Federal law grants broad authority to DHS and CBP to deploy personnel and surveillance technologies along the U.S.–Mexico border, including aerial assets, drones, towers and sensors . Reporting and ci...
The Bronze Star Medal is established by Executive Order No. 9419 (Feb. 4, 1944) and may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security for the Coast Guard, or...