The Audacity of Hindsight Could Help FEMA
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.
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.
Washington Post | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Privacy advocates have asked lawmakers to investigate the Department of Homeland Security office in charge of protecting Americans' privacy, saying it...
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics
Families are being torn apart by deportation at the treacherous intersection of immigration enforcement and the criminal justice system.
Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
An internal Congressional Research Service report says that the Secret Service does not that have the resources to deal with the unprecedented number ...
Isabel Macdonald | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a defiant, racial-profiling desperado with renewed authority to abuse his inmates. The scary part? The voting public approves.
Alison Parker | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
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.
New York Times | JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTON | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verif...
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
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.
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Instead of expending its resources to deport immigrants like Jean Murat Montrevil, ICE should exercise its discretion to grant Deferred Action.
David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
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...
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 09.19.2009 | New York
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.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
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.
Jenna Staul | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business
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...
Charlotte Observer | Kristin Collins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
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...
Dawn Teo | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
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
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Some e-mails purporting to be from the Homeland Security Department's intelligence division were fake and contained malicious softw...
Shahid Buttar | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
American Muslims, Arabs, South Asians, and Latinos are still waiting for federal officials to respect our civil rights.
Nathan Robinson | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media
On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine ran an absurdly fluffy interview with Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
One persistent question regarding individuals who are in detention and subject to deportation is, "What is the nature of their offenses?"
Frank Sharry | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
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.
Wall Street Journal | Cam Simpson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Sparks could fly at the White House Thursday, as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano meets leading advocates for an immigration overhaul....
washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
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...
W. David Stephenson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media
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.
Michael Conniff | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
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.
The Washington Independent | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
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...
Michael D. Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics