Department of Homeland Security

We rated the Department of Homeland Security’s information security program for FY 2023 as “effective,” according to this year’s reporting instructions. We based this rating on our evaluation of the Department’s compliance with requirements of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of...

We rated the Department of Homeland Security’s information security program for FY 2023 as “effective,” according to this year’s reporting instructions. We based this rating on our evaluation of the Department’s compliance with requirements of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of...

Although the Department of Homeland Security has made improvements to reduce improper payments (IPs) and unknown payments (UPs), DHS did not comply with the Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA) of 2019 for fiscal year 2023. According to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-123, an...

Three Department of Homeland Security components—U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—have separate but interconnected processes for identifying and resolving derogatory information for...

To learn how communities across the nation responded to the pandemic, we initiated a multi-part review of six communities—two cities, two rural counties, and two Tribal reservations. This report is the first community-specific report and focuses on our work in Springfield, Massachusetts, where we...

During our unannounced inspection of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Golden State Annex (Golden State) in McFarland, California, we found that Golden State complied with ICE’s Performance-Based National Detention Standards 2011 (PBNDS 2011), as revised in December 2016, for use of...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) planned activities funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) appear related to CISA’s cross-sector role. CISA had only spent a small amount of IIJA funds by the start of fieldwork, limiting our ability to assess how the...

During our unannounced inspection of Krome North Service Processing Center (Krome) in Miami, Florida, we found that Krome’s staff complied with Performance-Based National Detention Standards 2011, as revised in December 2016, for classification, voluntary work program, recreation, facility...

In July 2023, we conducted on-site, unannounced inspections of six U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities in the Rio Grande Valley area, specifically three U.S. Border Patrol facilities and three Office of Field Operations ports of entry. At the time of our on-site inspection, Border...