DHS is keeping America safe through strong international partnerships.
Here’s how we’re advancing our mission together with key international partners. ⬇️
📌 Singapore
DHS personnel perform the DHS mission all around the world, including in Singapore. While in country, @SecMayorkas met with our personnel stationed in the region alongside @USAmbSG@RedWhiteBlueDot, to hear firsthand about the important work they perform each day.
“We are at a cyber crossroads.” @SecMayorkas delivered keynote remarks at the Singapore International Cyber Week Summit on addressing our shared global challenges to cybersecurity through collaboration. #SICW2022
.@SecMayorkas and @LawrenceWongST also had a productive visit in Singapore. Through the cyber dialogue, our law enforcement partnerships, and the Visa Waiver Program, 🇺🇸 DHS and 🇸🇬 Singapore have a strong and growing partnership for security in the Indo-Pacific.
.@SecMayorkas met with 🇸🇬 Minister @joteo_ylm & @CSASingapore Commissioner Koh to discuss our extensive work in #cyber & critical infrastructure. Through @CISAgov and CSA, we are expanding our collaboration to new areas, including connected communities and emerging technologies.
Next stop, @SecMayorkas joined @kshanmugam. Our work with the @mhasingapore, from our Home Team Academy partnership to our critical cybersecurity efforts with CSA, exemplifies the important relationship between the 🇺🇸 and 🇸🇬.
On the margins of #SICW2022, @SecMayorkas met with 🇹🇭 @prmdes_official to advance cyber cooperation via Thai National Security Agency’s 5-year plan. DHS has a strong partnership with Thailand in combating cybercrime & promoting digital access.
.@SecMayorkas also met with 🇻🇳 Vietnam’s Minister of Public Security to reaffirm our strong partnership with Vietnam for a free and open Indo-Pacific.
At the Port of Singapore, @SecMayorkas saw firsthand the partnership between @MPA_Signapore and @USCG to enhance ship safety and the security of the maritime transportation system.
This week in Asia underscores how we will continue to advance our #DHSmission & pursue a free & secure world. Read more on the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Security Strategy.
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In the first 24 hours of Operation Catahoula Crunch, DHS law enforcement arrested criminal illegal aliens with rap sheets that include murder, kidnapping, child abuse, and robbery.
@POTUS Trump and @Sec_Noem are making America — and New Orleans — SAFE again.
Worst of the worst:
Binh Van To, a criminal illegal alien from Vietnam convicted for robbery, aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, homicide, and aggravated assault.
Hung Ngoc Tran, a criminal illegal alien from Vietnam who was issued a final order of removal in 2010. Tran was convicted of sexual assault, larceny, and fondling a child.
Tens of thousands of unvetted Afghan aliens have hurt and terrorized Americans after the Biden administration flooded our communities with criminals, terrorists, and other threats.
These are just a few of the criminals who have rewarded American generosity with violence:
Jamal Wali, an Afghan national let into the country under the Biden administration through Operation Allies Welcome, shot and wounded two Fairfax, Virginia, police officers during a routine traffic stop. He was killed by return fire after declaring “I should have served with the f–king Taliban!”
Abdullah Haji Zada and Nasir Ahmed Tawhedi, both Afghan nationals given legal status by the Biden administration, were arrested and prosecuted for plotting a terrorist attack in Oklahoma City for Election Day 2024. They possessed hundreds of rounds of ammunition and had pledged their allegiance to ISIS.
President Trump and Secretary Noem have jumpstarted an agency that was hamstrung and barred from doing its job for the last four years.
For the first time in over five decades, The United States is on track to see NEGATIVE NET MIGRATION.
The foreign-born population has declined by 2.2 million this year, which includes the 1.6 million illegal aliens who have voluntarily self-deported and 555,000 deportations.
The Biden Administration’s unrestrained visa vetting put American lives at risk.
Under @Sec_Noem, a new era has dawned for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. USCIS agents are now fully empowered by a final rule to enforce the law by prosecuting and removing illegal aliens from the country. With this change, DHS has so far received over 35,000 applications from patriotic Americans to help stop abuse of the U.S. immigration system.
If you want to help us decide who will enter our country, go to: USCIS.GOV/JOIN
For new citizens, USCIS has unveiled the implementation of a new 2025 naturalization civics test, which will assess an alien’s comprehension of U.S. history, government, and proficiency the English language in line with the statutory requirement.
That step will restore integrity to the naturalization process, ensuring that American citizenship remains a safely protected privilege, not a freebie for anyone in the world. Furthermore, it will help guarantee citizens by choice have a keen understanding and appreciation for our tradition, customs, language, and culture, and understand the duty they have to continue American greatness.
Operation Midway Blitz has achieved what Chicago’s sanctuary politicians have refused to do for decades: decrease crime, remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, and put Americans first.
The worst of the worst arrested during Operation Midway Blitz include:
Luis Chavez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico and member of the Latin Kings who was previously deported, convicted of burglary, obstruction of justice, two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, two DUIs, illegal reentry and previously arrested for possession of a controlled substance.
Carlos Barrera-Vega, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico and member of the U-Boys violent street gang, convicted for predatory criminal sex assault and burglary.
October 22nd was one of the most violent days faced by DHS law enforcement since the beginning of Operation Midway Blitz.
To the rioters: you will not stop us or slow us down.
At a laundromat on Pulaski Road, USBP was conducting immigration enforcement operations when one female U.S. citizen, Isabel Mata, allegedly threatened a law enforcement officer after stating she would put a hit out on Chief Gregory Bovino. This incident has been referred to the FBI.
At 26th Street and Kostner Avenue, three U.S. citizens, Jacqueline Lopez, Eliana Bahena, and Jonathan Uribe, are accused of tailing Border Patrol vehicles to draw attention to them. One car then attempted to ram a vehicle, and all three drivers were taken into custody.
🚨NEW YORK’S CANAL STREET IS SAFER: 9 illegal aliens arrested have violent rap sheets including robbery, burglary, domestic violence, assaulting law enforcement, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, drug possession, and forgery.
Under President Trump and @Sec_Noem, criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.
Mamadou Ndoye, a criminal illegal alien from Mali, issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2008 was previously arrested for crimes including assault, recklessly endangering, counterfeiting third degree, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal sale of narcotics, possessing a controlled substance, possession of marijuana for sale, making false reports to law enforcement and resisting arrest.
Muhammad Ndiaye, a criminal illegal alien from Senegal, with previous arrests for domestic violence, robbery, receiving stolen property, burglary, fraudulent accosting. forgery, counterfeiting, sale of a controlled substance, obstruction, and disorderly conduct. He entered the U.S. on a B2 tourist visa that required him to depart in 1995.