The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on election officials in key battleground states, with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin doubling down Friday on claims that hundreds of thousands of non-citizens are illegally registered to vote – claims that the agency has quietly acknowledged aren’t fully vetted.

DHS has issued 103,000 civil fines totaling roughly $84 billion to illegal immigrants since Trump took office, collecting $1.2 billion in payments.

ICE arrests are spiking again, according to data DHS released more than three months late.

Tension is brewing between the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, sources say.

Thousands of immigrants still hold valid work permits while waiting for lower courts to act on the Supreme Court's decision.

DHS has had hundreds of billions of dollars injected into immigration enforcement, with critics worrying of oversight of the gargantuan agency.

DHS has withdrawn appeal to DEP orders on purchased Berks and Schuylkill county warehouses, ending plans to turn them into ICE detention centers.

DHS is now pushing states to use the expanded SAVE System -- a tool maintained by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services originally intended to determine eligibility for government benefits -- to assess their voter rolls, according to a DHS report released by the White House on Thursday night.

In recent days, federal immigration agents fatally shot two immigrant fathers. None of the federal officers involved were wearing body cameras, the agency said.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin ramped up the Trump administration's efforts to address what the president claimed are lapses in election security.

DHS cited 6,947 criminally-convicted illegal immigrants released in New York due to failure to honor ICE detainers, rebuking Rep. Daniel Goldman's claim.