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Last Updated: October 3, 2023 | Speeches

Secretary Mayorkas Delivers Remarks at U.S. Department of Justice Press Conference

Secretary Mayorkas delivered the following remarks at press conference announcing several fentanyl-related indictments at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

Last Updated: September 21, 2023 | Speeches

Secretary Mayorkas Delivers Remarks at Ukrainian Cultural Artifacts Repatriation Ceremony

Secretary Mayorkas delivered the following remarks at a repatriation ceremony at the Ukrainian Embassy to the United States alongside President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Last Updated: September 19, 2023 | Press Releases

DHS Homeland Security Investigations Announces Strategy to Combat Illicit Opioids

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) released the Strategy for Combating Illicit Opioids, an intelligence-driven approach to disrupting and dismantling transnational criminal organizations and keeping dangerous substances, like illicit fentanyl driving the overdose epidemic, off America’s streets. To advance President Biden’s Unity Agenda Strategy to beat the overdose epidemic, DHS is working with partners at every level of government to stop the illicit flow of fentanyl into the country, including through various surge campaigns launched this year.

Last Updated: September 1, 2023 | Press Releases

DHS Announces Results of Coordinated Enforcement to Interdict Southbound Firearms “Operation Without a Trace”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its federal partners announced the results of increased enforcement efforts to stem the trafficking of firearms from the United States into Mexico for use by transnational criminal organizations.

Last Updated: July 13, 2023 | Press Releases

Secretary Mayorkas Delivers Updates on DHS Campaign to Stop Fentanyl

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas provided an update on DHS’s surge campaign to target and prevent fentanyl and its precursor chemicals from entering the United States.

Last Updated: June 9, 2023 | Press Releases

DHS to Ban Imports from Two Additional PRC-Based Companies as Part of Its Enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced new actions to keep forced labor practices out of the U.S. supply chain.

Last Updated: May 31, 2023 | Press Releases

DHS Operations Blue Lotus and Four Horsemen Stopped Nearly 10,000 Pounds of Fentanyl, Led to 284 Arrests

DHS agencies announced the results of Operations Blue Lotus and Four Horsemen, surge efforts to curtail the flow of illicit fentanyl smuggled into the United States from Mexico, as the U.S. Department of Justice announced referrals for prosecution in cases stemming from the operations in Arizona and Southern California.  

Last Updated: May 3, 2023 | Fact Sheets

Fact Sheet: DHS Efforts to Combat Child Exploitation and Abuse

DHS is dedicated to battling child exploitation and abuse from every angle: identifying and rescuing victims, protecting and supporting victims and survivors, locating and apprehending perpetrators, and raising awareness through public education and outreach.

Last Updated: April 14, 2023 | Press Releases

Operation Blue Lotus Stops Over 4,000 Pounds of Fentanyl in First Month

DHS issued an update on Operation Blue Lotus as part of the Biden Administration’s significant and historic actions to disrupt the trafficking of synthetic drugs, representing a major contribution to a government-wide effort to save lives and pursue justice and accountability.

Last Updated: March 31, 2023 | Press Releases

United States Files Forfeiture Action Against Over One Million Rounds of Ammunition Enroute from Iran to Yemen

The Justice Department announced the filing of a forfeiture complaint against over one million rounds of ammunition, thousands of proximity fuses for rocket-propelled grenades, and thousands of pounds of propellant for rocket-propelled grenades that the U.S. Navy seized in transit from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to militant groups in Yemen.