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The Audacity of Hindsight Could Help FEMA

Michael D. Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Department of Homeland Security, John Mica, Joe Lieberman, Hurricane Katrina, Fema, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Politics News
Michael D. Brown

Ironic that a few days after a terrorist attack occurs on U.S. soil, a House committee takes action which would enhance the Nation's ability to respond to and recover from a disaster.

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Homeland Security Privacy Policy Investigation Sought

Washington Post | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. Intelligence, Privacy Investigation, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Committee, u.s. Surveillance, Surveillance Policy, Privacy Law Investigation, Privacy Policy Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Privacy Policy, Privacy Coalition, Intelligence Policy, Privacy Law, Surveillance Law, Patriot Act, Privacy Policy, Politics News

Privacy advocates have asked lawmakers to investigate the Department of Homeland Security office in charge of protecting Americans' privacy, saying it...

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Torn Apart by Deportation, Families Struggle to Stay Together

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Crime, Washington DC, Obama, Families for Freedom, Immigration, Criminal Justice, Child Citizen Protection Act, 287(G), New York, Barack Obama, Deportation, Racewire, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Reform, Colorlines, Nytimes, Criminal Justice System, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Prison, Applied Research Center, Jamaica, Jail, Politics News
Seth Freed Wessler

Families are being torn apart by deportation at the treacherous intersection of immigration enforcement and the criminal justice system.

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Secret Service Spread Thin By Increase In Threats Against U.S. Leaders

Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Financial Investigations, Death Threats, Threats, Secret Service, Terrorist Threat, Congressional Research Service, Obama Administration, Southern Poverty Law Center, Department of Homeland Security, Special Agent Edwin Donovan, Domestic Threat, Racist Hate Groups, Protection Mission, Antigovernment, Politics News

An internal Congressional Research Service report says that the Secret Service does not that have the resources to deal with the unprecedented number ...

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Sheriff Arpaio: "I Could Get Elected On Pink Underwear"

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, 287(G), Joe-Arpaio, Politics News
Isabel Macdonald

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a defiant, racial-profiling desperado with renewed authority to abuse his inmates. The scary part? The voting public approves.

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Send a Bad Law Away, Not People

Alison Parker | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Supreme Court, Homeland Security, Jose Padilla, Human-Rights-Watch-World-Report-2009, Immigration, Jose Padilla 17 Years Sentence, Jose Padilla Prison, Politics News
Alison Parker

Every day the U.S. government is forced to grapple with the consequences of harsh and sweeping immigration laws passed by Congress 13 years ago. And Jose Padilla is the latest senseless case.

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U.S. Still Lacks Reliable System For Tracking Foreign Visitors On Expired Visas

New York Times | JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTON | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, 9/11, Visas, Homeland Security, Foreigners, Politics News

Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verif...

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The Least of These: Family Detention in America

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alien Security Check, Caribbean Deportees, Caribbean Immigrants, Child Citizen Protection Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Criminal Alien Program, Department of Corrections, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detainee Transfer Notification, Detention, Detention Policy, Detention Policy Oversight, Dora Schriro, Families for Freedom, First Friends, Ice, Idp, Iirira, Immigrants Defense Project, Immigration, Immigration Detainer, Immigration Reform, Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, International Office of Migration, Isap, Janet Napolitano, Mandatory Detention, National Detention Standards, New Sanctuary Movement, Obama CARICOM, Obama Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Obama Trinidad, Scaap, Secure Communities Initiative, Trinidad, Trinidad Deportees, Family-Detention, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

Given the financial and other challenges of housing families in detention centers, Obama should consider more 'civil' alternatives available, such as releasing families into the community.

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The Faces of Detention and Deportation: Jean Murat Montrevil

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alien Security Check, Caribbean Deportees, Caribbean Immigrants, Child Citizen Protection Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Criminal Alien Program, Department of Corrections, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detainee Transfer Notification, Detention, Detention Policy, Detention Policy Oversight, Dora Schriro, Families for Freedom, First Friends, Ice, Idp, Iirira, Immigrants Defense Project, Immigration, Immigration Detainer, Immigration Reform, International Office of Migration, Janet Napolitano, Mandatory Detention, National Detention Standards, New Sanctuary Movement, Obama CARICOM, Obama Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Obama Trinidad, Scaap, Secure Communities Initiative, Trinidad, Trinidad Deportees, Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, ISAP, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

Instead of expending its resources to deport immigrants like Jean Murat Montrevil, ICE should exercise its discretion to grant Deferred Action.

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Secesh 3.0: Fear Of A Black President

David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, Birthers, Obama Stimulus, Homeland Security, McCain Palin, Secession, Confederate Flag, Secede, Obama, Southern Poverty Law Center, Joe Wilson You Lie, Strom Thurmond, Stimulus, Rep. Joe Wilson, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Rob Miller, Department of Homeland Security, Tax Day Tea Party, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Hate Groups, Stimulus Package, Joe Wilson, Birther, Economic Stimulus, Joe Wilson South Carolina, Health Care, Tea Party, Southern Strategy, Town Hall Meetings, Race, Racism, Politics News
David A. Love

When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s health care address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time th...

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Time to De-ICE the Department of Corrections

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 09.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Caribbean Immigrants, Child Citizen Protection Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Criminal Alien Program, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detention, Detention Policy, Detention Policy Oversight, Families for Freedom, First Friends, Ice, Iirira, Immigration, Immigration Detainer, Immigration Reform, International Office of Migration, Janet Napolitano, Mandatory Detention, New Sanctuary Movement, Obama CARICOM, Obama Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Obama Trinidad, Scaap, Secure Communities Initiative, Trinidad, Department of Corrections, Dora Schriro, National Detention Standards, Detainee Transfer Notification, Alien Security Check, Caribbean Deportees, Trinidad-Deportees, New York News
Arlene M. Roberts

Dora Schriro, the new commissioner of corrections for New York City, should fight to remove Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from New York City's jails.

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Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security

Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Shoe Bomber, Department of Homeland Security, Fearmongering, Tom Ridge, Homeland Security, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Airport Security, Bush War on Terror, September 11th, Living News
Jay Michaelson

The rest of the world is laughing at us. Literally, in some cases -- when I reflexively took my shoes off at a security line in Berlin, the guard chuckled. Stupid American.

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Homeland Security Nominee Failed To Report Lobbying Background

Jenna Staul | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Lobbyblog, Lobby, The Washington Times, Alliance for Biosecurity, Ethics, Transparency, Business News

A nominee for a high-level position in the Department of Homeland Security has come under fire for her failure to disclose past work as a lobbyist. T...

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N.C. Native Wrongly Deported To Mexico

Charlotte Observer | Kristin Collins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Mexico, Fbi, Immigration, Mark Lyttle, Us Citizenship, Politics News

The U.S. government admitted in April that it had wrongly deported an N.C. native, but newly released documents show that federal investigators ignore...

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After Being Ignored By White House, 521 Immigration Groups Join To Protest Obama's Inaction

Dawn Teo | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Illegal Aliens, Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, 521 Immigrant Organizations, Illegal Immigrants, 287(G), Immigrant Groups Revolt, Immigration News, Immigration Reform, Politics News
Dawn Teo

A coalition of 521 organizations have signed an open letter to Obama and are planning vigils, marches, and other events across the country to protest the administration's policy on the Department of Homeland Security 287(g) local immigration enforcement program

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Fake DHS Intel E-mails Spread Malicious Software

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Counterintelligence, Defense Department, Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Some e-mails purporting to be from the Homeland Security Department's intelligence division were fake and contained malicious softw...

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Smoke and Mirrors

Shahid Buttar | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Civil Liberties, Muslim, Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Janet Napolitano, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

American Muslims, Arabs, South Asians, and Latinos are still waiting for federal officials to respect our civil rights.

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NY Times Mega-Softballs Napolitano on Sunday, Exposes Department Abuses on Thursday

Nathan Robinson | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Media Criticism, New York Times, Immigration, Tsa, Janet Napolitano, Media News
Nathan Robinson

On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine ran an absurdly fluffy interview with Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security.

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The Faces of Detention and Deportation

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

Read More: Caribbean Immigrants, Caricom, CARICOM Crime, Criminal Deportees, Deportation, Deportee Integration Program, Detention, Department of Homeland Security, Dhs, Homeland Security, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ice, Immigration Reform, International Office of Migration, Iom, Janet Napolitano, Mandatory Detention, Migration Policy Institute, Obama CARICOM, Obama Immigration, Obama Trinidad, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad Criminal Deportees, Crime-in-Caribbean, Criminology, Juncata Juvant Friendly Society, Martin Joseph, Ministry of National Security, Vision on Mission, Wayne Chance, World News
Arlene M. Roberts

One persistent question regarding individuals who are in detention and subject to deportation is, "What is the nature of their offenses?"

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Heading to White House Meeting on Immigration, Paging Governor Napolitano

Frank Sharry | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, White House, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Dhs, Janet Napolitano, President Obama, Politics News
Frank Sharry

If fervent hopes for immigration reform turn into dashed ones, many Latino immigrant voters who turned out for the first time in 2008 are likely to sit out 2010.

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Sparks Could Fly At White House Meeting On Immigration

Wall Street Journal | Cam Simpson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Reform, Janet Napolitano, George W. Bush, President Obama, Politics News

Sparks could fly at the White House Thursday, as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano meets leading advocates for an immigration overhaul....

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Airlines To Begin Asking Passengers For More Information

washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: FBI Watch List, Department of Homeland Security, Air Travel, Airports, Fbi, Airport Security, Airlines, Avaiation Security, Politics News

U.S. airlines on Saturday will begin asking travelers to provide their birth date and sex for the first time under a new aviation security requirement...

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New Anti-Terror Weapons: You, Me, iPhone & Twitter

W. David Stephenson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Wireless, Department of Homeland Security, Secretary of Homeland Security, Technology, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Twitter, Iran Twitter, US Protection, Facebook, Social Media Networks, Tweets, Iphone, Web 2.0, Twittering, Media News
W. David Stephenson

Crafting an effective strategy to productively involve the general public in homeland security should center on two technologies: mobile communication devices and Web 2.0 social media.

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Con Games: Homeland Infirmity

Michael Conniff | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration, Hurricane Katrina, Coast Guard, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Politics News
Michael Conniff

There is the real possibility that the Homeland Security Department will miss the necessary clues because they had more important things to do -- like prepare for the next hurricane.

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Kennedy, Menendez And Gillibrand Introduce Bills To Stop Immigrant Detainee Abuse

The Washington Independent | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigrant Rights, Edward Kennedy, Abuse, Human Rights, Prison, Homeland Security, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Immigration, Prison Abuse, Robert Menendez, Kirsten Gillibrand, Immigration Detention Centers, Politics News

Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on Thursday responded to a growing number of reports about t...

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