Janet Napolitano

Napolitano Grilled By Republicans Over County's Immigration Policy

Posted 04.26.2012

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During a Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was grilled by a duo of Republican senators on imm...

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Napolitano Facing Questions Over Scandal

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN and ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 04.26.2012

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WASHINGTON — Conflicting images of the Secret Service and new questions about the military's handling of the prostitution scandal in Colombia em...

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Arizona's Controversial Immigration Law Arriving At Supreme Court This Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the federal government's challenge to the Grand Canyon state's contro...

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Harry Reid: TSA Workers Need To 'Smile And Say Hello'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is planning to send a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asking her to di...

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When Good Isn't Enough

Lovisa Stannow | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Prison Rape, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Criminal Justice, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Janet Napolitano, Prison, Rape, Crime News

Over the last year, Janet Napolitano has resisted application of the Prison Rape Elimination Act to facilities run by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arguing that planned changes to the agency's internal policies would be sufficient.

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White House Helped Pay For Surveillance Of Muslim Neighborhoods In NYC

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 04.28.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Monday it has no control over how the New York Police Department spends millions of dollars in White ...

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A Bad Joke's Kernel of Truth

Shai Baitel | Posted 04.22.2012

Geographically, Iran may be far away from the Americas but its growing presence in Venezuela is a serious danger. It is not a joke.

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Lawmakers Enraged Over DHS Program To Monitor Online Comments On Government

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers looking into homeland security officials' practice of monitoring social media sites seized on a report Thursday by a civil lib...

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Four Years Frozen in ICE

Ahilan Arulanantham | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Immigration, Ice, Mental Disability, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mental Illness, Pete Stark, Immigrant Detention, Ensuring Mental Competence in Immigration Proceedings Act, Janet Napolitano, Dick Durbin, Los Angeles News

Like thousands of other people in 2006, Jose Franco was detained by immigration authorities. Most detainees are either deported to their country of origin or released. But this case took a different route.

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Janet Napolitano: Homeland Security, Economic Security Go 'Hand-In-Hand'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A top administration official on Monday signaled that the focus of homeland security in 2012 would shift in emphasis to business and the...

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Common Sense Does Exist in Washington After All

David Leopold | Posted 03.24.2012

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Administrative closure of a deportation case does not take a single job away from a U.S. worker. What it does is free up ICE prosecutors to go after those who pose a threat to our communities.

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White House Holding Summit On Crucial Issue

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 03.19.2012

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WASHINGTON — State and local law enforcement officials convened at the White House on Wednesday for a daylong discussion about how police can ma...

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Homeland Security Budget Cuts Leaving Cities On Their Own

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- When the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed in 2007, a specially equipped urban search and rescue team based in the Twin Cities respo...

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Congressman Helps Alabama Woman Who Was Held By Immigration Authorities

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Immigration officials released an undocumented Alabama woman from custody on Thursday, about four hours after a Democratic congressman t...

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Congressmen Urge DHS To Adopt Rape-Prevention Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of House members is urging the Obama administration this week to apply the same rape-prevention measures to immigrant...

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Napolitano: Lone Wolf Threat Is Growing

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 02.01.2012

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PARIS — U.S. Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano said Friday that the risk of "lone wolf" attackers, with no ties to known extremist net...

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Democrat Recommends Way For Undocumented Immigrants To Avoid Deportation Proceedings

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.02.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) urged undocumented immigrants on Friday to carry copies of documents that can prove their strong ties to th...

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Counterterrorism Czar Resists Muslim Labels, As Critics Say Right-Wing Threat Looms Larger

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The federal government's point man working to counter homegrown violent extremism and defend communities from terrorist attacks isn't in...

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The Next Osama Bin Laden Already Has Your Social Security Number

Adam Levin | Posted 01.17.2012

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The U.S. government needs to be certain that our response to the genuine and massive threat of cyber attacks is not as bureaucratic and fractious as everything else that goes on in Washington these days.

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Same-Sex Couple Fights DOMA To Stay Together In U.S.

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. citizen Kelli Ryan and Lucy Truman, a citizen of the United Kingdom, have been together for a decade and legally married in the Uni...

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Who's To Blame For Obama's Immigration Policies?

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Since the beginning of his administration, immigration reform has been a sensitive issue for President Barack Obama. As the disappointme...

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Government Won't Help Alabama Enforce Controversial Law

AP | By ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 12.26.2011

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By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) WASHINGTON -- The government hasn't offered to help Alabama put in place a strict immigration law that...

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Rep. Gutiérrez: "Alabama is fertile ground for implementing the discretion policy in prioritizing deportations"

Maribel Hastings | Posted 12.25.2011

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As Latinos and as immigrants, the first thing we have to do is thank all the members of the NAACP who gave their lives so that one day we would have a Civil Rights Act and a Voting Rights Act, and ask that as an institution they defend our people, as we will do for them.

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House Bill Would Authorize Czar To Watch Islamist Extremists But Not Other Domestic Terrorists

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.10.2011

WASHINGTON -- A House bill set for markup on Wednesday would give protection against civil lawsuits to those who report suspicious activity, designate...

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Janet Napolitano: Immigration Effort 'Got Off To A Bad Start'

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.05.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted on Wednesday that there had been major missteps in rolling out Secure Communities,...

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