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New Orleans Immigrants Weather the Storm

Angela Kelley | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Raids, Bush Administration, Hurricane Katrina, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Hurricane Gustav, Politics News

The response of New Orleans' immigrants to Hurricane Gustav is just another gross example of how attrition through enforcement doesn't work. A growin...

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Bias At Homeland Security Led To Poor Site For $451 Mil. Lab

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security, Mississippi, Bioterrorism, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi _ home to powerful U.S. lawmak...

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Message to DHS: It's the Economy Stupid

Angela Kelley | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economic Slowdown, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Economy, Immigration Reform, Labor, Economics, Economy, Immigration, Immigration Debate, Voluntary Deportation, Politics News

The government fails to recognize that undocumented immigration is based more on the economics of survival than the politics of immigration enforcement -- a costly misjudgment.

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DHS Take Laptops At Border: No Reason Required

Washington Post | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Border Take Laptop, Customs Laptop, Department of Homeland Security, Dhs Take Laptop, Border Security, Dhs Laptop, Politics News

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any ...

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COINTELPRO Comes to My Town: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies

Dave Zirin | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Death Penalty, Maryland, Spying on Citizens, Cointelpro, Ehrlich, Politics News

Our seditious crimes, as "Lucy" reported, involved planning to set up a table at the local farmer's market and writing a petition. We can only assume that this surveillance was to garner Homeland Security grant money.

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Another Scary Government Program: the Government Gets to Seize Your Electronic Gear at the Border

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Illegal Search and Seizure, Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, Intrusive Government, Privacy Invasions, Seizures, Invasions of Privacy, Invasion of Privacy, Electronic Data, Electronic Privacy, Privacy, Politics News

There's no legal difference between looking through your backpack and seizing your electronic data in the US. This is the stuff of the Cold War Soviet Union, right? Or maybe a third world dictatorship?

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Border Wall Resistance Heats Up

Marisa Treviño | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Border Wall, San Diego, Mexico, Texas, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Hispanics, Politics News

Homeland Security is determined to construct as much fencing as they can along the US/Mexico border while the Bush is in office. But they're being stymied by strong resistance from local residents.

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Immigration Workplace Raids Will Lead to More Lost American Jobs

Susie Hoeller | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Border Walls, Bush Administration Violation of U.S. Constitution, Workplace Raids, Mexico, Immigration Prisons, Immigration, Barack Obama, WWII Japanese POW, Torture, Food Industry, Tancredo Immigration, Wall on Mexico Border, Tom Tancredo, Chertoff, Department of Homeland Security, Politics News

The fact that we don't legally require living wages to be paid in this country and the fact that our immigration laws are totally out of synch with several realities does not make the current strategy of workplace and home raids and border walls either effective or humane.

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Penn State's Frightening Defense

Bryan Farrell | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tasers, The Institute for Non-Lethal Weapons Technologies, Penn State University, Barack Obama, The Daily Collegian, Joe Paterno, The Puke Ray, Department of Homeland Security, Danger Room, Fentanyl, Department of Defense, US Marines, Pennsylvania Primary, Applied Research Laboratories, Hillary Clinton, Wired, US Navy, Sunshine Project, Politics News

Penn State has one of the U.S. Navy's top civilian research facilities, where it's developing non-lethal weapons. But the government may be using the illusion of good intentions to mask its more pressing agenda.

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Electronic Dragnet for Undocumented Nets Citizens

Roberto Lovato | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Right to Privacy, Immigration, Social Security, Electronic Surveillance, Privacy, Dhs, Politics News

Two hours after starting his new job at a food processing plant in 2006, Fernando Tinoco got fired as a result of a new program designed to identify undocumented workers.

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Huge Amount Of Immigrants To Get Permanent Residency Without Completed Background Checks

Mcclatchy dc | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration, Immigration Policy, FBI and Immigration, Immigration Background Checks, Politics News

In a major policy shift aimed at reducing a ballooning immigration backlog, the Department of Homeland Security is preparing to grant permanent reside...

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Homeland Security Dept. Plagued By Corruption, Mismanaged Billions

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

Read More: Wasted Taxpayer Money, Corruption, Department of Homeland Security, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Political Patronage, Politics News

The Department of Homeland Security has wasted and mismanaged billions in taxpayer dollars and is plagued by internal criminal activity, a study relea...

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Fake FEMA Reporters Promoted

Washington Post | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Wildfires, Michael Chertoff, California Fires, Bush Administration, Fema, California Wildfires, Fake FEMA Conference, Politics News

On Oct. 23, the day of FEMA's now infamous phony news conference, the agency's former external affairs chief, Pat Philbin, announced plans to promote ...

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Feds Want Kerik's Lawyer Disqualified

Associated Press | Jim Fitzgerald | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Giuliani and Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, Bernard Kerik, Kerik Indictment, New York City, Politics News

Federal prosecutors on Thursday asked the judge in the case against former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to consider disqualifying K...

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The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Philip Giraldi | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Justice Department Seizure of Property, Committee on Un-American Activities, Alien Act, Homegrown Terrorists, Sedition Act, Ku Klux Clan, Samuel Dickstein, Joseph Lieberman, Thomas Jefferson, Military Commissions Act, Steve Emerson, Daniel Pipes, Habeas Corpus, Alien and Sedition Act, Department of Homeland Security, Sacco and Vanzetti, David Horowitz, Fascism, Patriot Act, Jane Harman, Anti-American Professors, Anti-Muslim, Frank Gaffney, Joseph McCarthy, Palestinian Americans, John Adams, Neoconservatives, Post 9/11, Martin Dies, Huac, Politics News

One would have thought that the systematic dismantling of the Constitution would have been enough to satisfy even the most Jacobin neoconservative.

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Bordering on Ridiculous

Bob Franken | Posted 11.24.2007 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Borders, Tom Tancredo, Politics News

How unhappy will prospective naturalized citizens not eligible to vote make most Republican candidates, not just Tancredo, who have made anti-immigrant zealotry such an article of party faith? Not very.

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Gimme Shelter

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Shoe Bomber, National Security Archive, Department of Homeland Security, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, Luis Posada Carriles, Selective Prosecution, Rudy Giuliani, Conservative Judges, Jose Guillermo Garcia, Jose Padilla, Federalist Society, Enhanced Interrogations, Senator Richard Durbin, Alberto Gonzales, Richard Reid, Torture, Politics News

The U.S. has now become the dumping ground of choice for those who have committed the most heinous crimes, principally because we lack the laws necessary to prosecute them.

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Misinformation on No Match Ruling

Jennifer C. Chang | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: Social Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Social Security, No Match, Homeland Security, Politics News

Instead of punishing citizens and legal workers, the administration should dedicate itself to enforcing the workplace rights of all workers.

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Homeland Security Dept. Wants "Abandoned Insane Asylum" As New HQ

US News and World Report | Nikki Schwab | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Politics News

Once the first Government Hospital for the Insane, the western campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital today is an overgrown hillside of dilapidated brick b...

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Blowing Up the Sears Tower for Fun and Profit

Larry Arnstein | Posted 10.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Sears Tower, Miami Terror Case, War on Terror, Justice Department, Homeland Security, Fbi, Politics News

If the FBI can find nobody more threatening than the seven homeless men in Miami that allegedly planned attacks which would allow them to take over the country and eventually the world, we can relax a little.

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Could You Pass The New Citizenship Test?

The New York Times | Julia Preston | Posted 09.27.2007 | Home

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Naturalization, Immigration, Citizens, Home News

Patrick Henry and Francis Scott Key are out, but Susan B. Anthony and Nancy Pelosi are in. The White House was cut, but New York and Sept. 11 made the...

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US To Admit 12,000 Iraqi Refugees

Washington Post | Paul Lewis | Posted 09.21.2007 | Home

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Iraq, State Department, Iraqi Refugees, United Nations, Home News

Some 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted to the United States over the next year as efforts to end long delays processing referrals from the United...

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