Department of Homeland Security

Homeland Security Watchdog May Close Troubled Texas Office

Andrew Becker | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Corruption, Department of Homeland Security, Fbi, Inspector General, Texas, Justice Department, Politics News, Washington, Politics News
Andrew Becker

The Homeland Security Department's beleaguered watchdog might close a troubled Texas office amid a federal probe into its agents' investigative practices, the Center for Investigative Reporting has learned.

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Elise Foley

Obama Administration Expands Prison Rape Elimination Act To Protect Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Cca, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Doj, Prea, Prison Rape, Prison Abuse, Sexual Assault, T. Don Hutto Facility, Department of Homeland Security, Video, Detention Center, Corrections Corporation of America, Department of Justice, Dhs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Immigrant detainees will no longer be treated differently under the law than prison inmates for purposes of rape prevention, the Obama a...

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Requiem for Reform?

Christopher Holshek | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Rachel Maddow Drift, Project on National Security Reform, Politics, Congress, Military, Military Industrial Complex, Department of Defense, Rachel Maddow, National Security, Homeland Security, Rachel Maddow Show, Fareed Zakaria, Defense Budget, Government Reform, Books News
Christopher Holshek

Maddow succeeds in explaining, in a charmingly non-wonkish way, how we got ourselves to our current state of affairs -- the unhealthy distortion of our time-honored yet taken-for-granted civil-military relationship.

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Female Farmworkers Commonly Suffer Sexual Assault, Harassment

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Westside Family Preservation Services Network, Bryan Little, California Farm Bureau Federation, Female Farmworkers, Grace Meng, Amparo Yebra, Illegal Immigration, Agriculture, Immigration, Immigration-Reform, Sexual Abuse, Department of Homeland Security, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Farm Employers Labor Service, Sexual Harassment, Ap, Women News

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration st...

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Elise Foley

Disappointed Democrats Fight Obama On Immigration -- And Campaign For Him

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Immigrant Rights, Obama Deportation, Obama Immigration, Mitt Romney, Immigration, Deportation, Obama Campaign, Barack Obama, Obama 2012, Zoe Lofgren, Deportation Record, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Reform, Luis Gutierrez, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mitt Romney 2012, DREAM Act, Secure Communities, Ice, Dhs, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of President Barack Obama's most vocal critics on immigration, was sitting at dinner with his family a...

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Elise Foley

Perry Claims Obama Encourages Unauthorized Immigration By Minors

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry accused the Obama administration last week of skirting its immigration enforcement duties to the point of encourag...

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Homeland Security Office to Unload Hundreds of Corruption Probes

Andrew Becker | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Inspector General, Justice Department, Fbi, Corruption, Politics News
Andrew Becker

Officials with the inspectors general's office believe bypassing the watchdog agency by going directly to Customs and Border Protection for information could hamper their investigations. Other agents, however, view the inspector general as ill-equipped to root out corruption.

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Andrea Stone

Mitt Romney's Homeland Security Record In Massachusetts: Everyone A Suspect

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Department of Homeland Security, Gov-Romney, Video, Mitt Romney Massachusetts, Dhs, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Domestic Spying, Politics News

Mitt Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts as the man who saved the 2002 winter Olympics. While much of his focus had been on righting the games in...

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Imagining A Terrorist Attack On LA

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Terrorism LA, Dirty Bomb, War on Terror, Terrorism, Bomb on LA, USC Study Terrorist Attack, Department of Homeland Security Study, LA Terrorist Attack, Terrorist Attack LA, Dirty Bomb LA, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, USC CREATE, Counterterrorism, USC Study Dirty Bomb, LA Dirty Bomb, Los Angeles News

If Los Angeles were to fall victim to a terrorist attack, one of the most likely methods would be a "dirty bomb," USC researcher Adam Rose told The Hu...

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Homeland Security Has Some Questions For Indian Software Giant

Reuters | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, India, Whistleblowers, Visa, Whistleblower, Infosys, Homeland Security, Reuters, Jack Palmer, Visas, Securities and Exchange Commission, Video, Business News

MUMBAI, April 22 (Reuters) - Infosys, India's No. 2 software services exporter, is under scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for ...

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Arin Greenwood

Man In Deportation Case Is Free ... For Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Arin Greenwood | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Mayor Vincent Gray, DC News, DC Police, District of Columbia, Jai Shankar, Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Immigration, Sanctuary Cities, Deportation, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Jai Shankar is no longer wearing the ankle bracelet that had been tracking his every move since 2010. Shankar was ordered to wear th...

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Andrea Stone

Europeans Hold Nose, Agree To Air Passenger Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Tsa, Video, Pnr-Agreement, Terrorism, Pnr-Eu, European Union, Airport Security, Airline Passengers, Air Passenger Data, Dhs, Air Travel, Passenger-Name-Records, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Two years after the formal expiration of a controversial Bush-era pact requiring air passenger data be handed over to the U.S. Departmen...

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Gerry Smith

'Extremely Partisan' GOP Impeding Progress On Cybersecurity Bill, Democrat Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity, Dhs, Dan Lungren, Cybersecurity Legislation, Cyberattack, PRECISE Act, Hackers, Technology News

As the House prepares to vote next week on landmark legislation to protect the nation's computer systems, Republicans have stripped a key provision fr...

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Homeland Security Corruption Probes to Be Reviewed

Andrew Becker | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Corruption, Department of Homeland Security, Inspector General, Washington D.C., Texas, Justice Department, Senate, Fbi, Lieberman, Politics News
Andrew Becker

Dozens of corruption investigations within the Department of Homeland Security are getting a fresh look by federal officials, amid reports that some internal watchdog agents falsified records at a Texas field office.

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Are TSA Agents Too Rude?

Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Harry Reid, Ben Nelson, Miss Manners, Tsa, Manners, Tsa Agents, Airport Security, Airlines, Travel News
Christopher Elliott

For those of you reading this who say it's unpatriotic to question the actions of an agency that stands guard against terrorism, let me ask you the following question: What if a real law enforcement agency or a branch of the military treated the civilian population like this?

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Elise Foley

Homeland Security Didn't Mean To Deceive Communities -- But Did, Inspector Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Two years ago, the Department of Homeland Security began an immigration enforcement program called Secure Communities, designed to find ...

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Homeland Security Office Accused of Faking Reports on Internal Investigations

Andrew Becker | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Inspector General, Justice Department, Dhs, Fbi, Corruption, Department of Homeland Security, Politics News, Politics News
Andrew Becker

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's watchdog agency is in turmoil amid allegations that its agents in Texas were told to falsify reports ahead of an office inspection last fall, according to an internal email and interviews.

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Elise Foley

Thousands Arrested In Immigration Operation

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, John Morton, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Illegal Immigrants, Secure Communities, Immigration, Dhs, Ice, Deportation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As Republicans accuse the Obama administration of shirking its responsibilities on immigration enforcement, the agency responsible for i...

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Elise Foley

Thousands Of Parents Deported By ICE

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.31.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In the first half of 2011 alone, nearly 46,500 parents of U.S.-born children were forced to leave the country, according to a report rel...

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Elise Foley

DHS Expanding Deportation Reviews To 4 More Cities

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security will begin to close deportation cases in Seattle, Detroit, New Orleans and Orlando after it temporar...

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Elise Foley

Immigrant Detention TOO Nice, House Republicans Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- To some Republicans in Congress, U.S. immigration detention facilities sound like resorts. That was the premise of a hearing Wednesd...

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Report: D.C. Nuclear Blast Wouldn't Totally Destroy Capital

AP | ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 05.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- This is what the U.S. government imagines would happen if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb just blocks away from the White House: The e...

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Repress U, Class of 2012: 7 Steps to a Homeland Security Campus

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.23.2012

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Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Since 9/11, the homeland security state has come to campus just as it has come to America's towns and cities, its places of work and its houses of worship, its public space and its cyberspace.

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Report: Despite Claims, Feds Deport Michigan Immigrants With No Criminal Records

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Illegal Immigrants Michigan, Michigan Customs, Detroit Undocumented Immigrants, Detroit ICE, Michigan ICE, Alliance for Immigrants Rights and Reform, Illegal Immigration, Racial Profiling Detroit, Detroit Latinos, Southwest Detroit, Immigration, Michigan Immigration, Racial Profiling, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Reform, Video, Secure Communities, State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Secure Communities Michigan, Detroit News

Undocumented immigrants who commit only minor infractions or have no criminal record make up the majority of Michigan's deportations through the U.S. ...

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Heavy Hand of Media Control in China -- and Here?

David Tereshchuk | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Internet Privacy, China Censorship, Political Blogging, Rep. Jackie Speier, Department of Homeland Security, Rep. Patrick Meehan, Protest, Free Speech, Media News
David Tereshchuk

Of course we are nothing like China when it comes to government surveillance of social media -- are we?

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