WASHINGTON — Almost two decades since the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created by Congress to protect the homeland in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, immigration — especially the control and management of U.S. borders — constitutes one of the department’s broadest mandates. Yet immigration governance is buckling from breakdowns in performance across key DHS immigration components and partner agencies elsewhere in the federal government, strained by high numbers of U.S.-Mexico border encounters and unprecedented case backlogs.
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