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Departments (11)
Administration for Children and Families Reorganizing
The HHS division that runs TANF, Head Start, child care, child support, foster care, and refugee resettlement programs
Bureau of Consular Affairs
The State Department bureau that issues passports and visas and helps Americans in trouble abroad
Employment and Training Administration
The Labor Department agency that oversees unemployment insurance, job training, apprenticeships, Job Corps, and foreign labor certification
Executive Office for Immigration Review Reorganizing
The Justice Department agency that runs the nation's immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers
The DHS agency that trains officers and agents for more than a hundred federal law enforcement organizations
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
The Transportation Department agency that regulates the safety of interstate trucks, buses, and commercial drivers
The Department of Homeland Security
The newest cabinet department: borders, immigration, aviation security, disaster response, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service
U.S. Border Patrol
The federal law enforcement agency that patrols the land borders and coasts between official ports of entry
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
The agency that decides green cards, work visas, asylum claims, and naturalization, funded almost entirely by application fees
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The largest federal law enforcement agency: the Border Patrol, 328 ports of entry, and the collection of tariffs and duties
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The interior enforcement agency: immigration arrests, detention, and deportation, plus criminal investigations through HSI
Agencies (1)
Immigration and Naturalization Service Dissolved
The federal agency that admitted immigrants, patrolled the borders, deported noncitizens, and naturalized new citizens until its functions were split up in 2003
Principles (4)
Agency Adjudication
How federal agencies decide individual cases, from benefits claims and immigration hearings to enforcement actions, outside the regular federal courts
Due Process
The constitutional guarantee, in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
Inherent Powers
Powers the national government holds because it is a sovereign nation, especially in foreign affairs and immigration, even where the Constitution does not list them
The Tenth Amendment in Practice
How courts have applied the Tenth Amendment, from a truism in 1941 to the anti-commandeering doctrine that today shapes sanctuary policies, sports betting, and federal programs
Documents & Cases (4)
Homeland Security Act of 2002
The law that created the Department of Homeland Security by merging 22 agencies, the largest reorganization of the federal government since 1947
INS v. Chadha (1983)
The case that struck down the legislative veto in nearly two hundred laws in a single ruling
The Fourteenth Amendment
The 1868 amendment defining citizenship and guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws against the states
Trump v. CASA (2025)
The case that sharply limited universal injunctions, holding that federal courts generally may grant relief only to the parties before them
States & Local (2)
Northern Mariana Islands
A Pacific commonwealth of about 47,000 people that chose union with the United States by covenant in 1975, after decades as a UN trust territory
Sheriffs and Local Police
The roughly 18,000 local law enforcement agencies, from elected county sheriffs to city police departments, that carry out most American policing
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