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The Case for Detention Reform

Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Immigration Reform, Private Prisons, Dhs, Aurora, Prison, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Janet Napolitano, Immigrant Detention, Denver News

Prisons should be for criminals, not honest, productive people caught up in the byzantine morass of our broken immigration system.

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Closing Our Open Society is a Victory for Terrorism

Salam Al Marayati | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tariq Ramadan, Yusuf Islam, Dhs, No Fly List, Dupret, Dealth Penalty, Protests, Anti-War Protestors, Politics News

To divert planes and stop people from entering the United States because they disagree with our government policies undermines the principles underpinning our open society.

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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

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

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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Bridges of Rhetoric and Suspicion

Abukar Arman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al-Shabab, Muslims, Dhs, Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Janet Napolitano, Somalia, US Muslim Relations, Obama, Fbi, September 11, Demonization, American Muslims, 9/11, Anti-Muslim Bias, New York Police Department, FBI Surveillance, Muslim World, Politics News

We must build bona fide bridges of understanding to significantly reduce elements hindering the ability of the US and Muslim world to work together on critical issues of mutual importance.

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Serious Words About Net-based Public Service From Gwynne on Dot-gov

Craig Newmark | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Egovernment, gov20, Dhs, Politics News

Hey: Gwynne Kostin from DHS is one of the folks figuring this out, and if you're interested, check out Gwynne on dot-gov: What Is the Most Important T...

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Obama Revives Bush Plan To Seek Out Illegal Workers

The Washington Post | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Dhs, Bush, Jeff Sessions, Social Security, Obama Immigration, President Obama, George W. Bush, Immigration, Immigrants, Obama, Department of Homeland Security, Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Workers, Politics News

President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers wi...

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Facts Are Stubborn Things -- So Why Is Napolitano Still Knocking the DHS Extremist Report?

Frank Naif | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Right Wing DHS Report, Intelligence, Politicization, Right Wing Extremism, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Dhs Report, Domestic Terrorism, Dhs, Minutemen, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News

Postulating that a latter-day McVeigh or Rudolph is lurking somewhere in America is not an ideologically-driven leap of logic, it's good old-fashioned intelligence analysis.

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DHS To End Domestic Satellite Spying Program, Reports AP

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeland Security, Dhs, Napolitano Satellite Spying, Domestic Satellite Spying, Satellite Spying, Napolitano Dhs, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to kill a program begun by the Bush administration that would use U.S. spy satel...

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Coal Ash Spills Too Dangerous To Reveal To Public, Says DHS (VIDEO)

Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Barbara Boxer, Tennessee Coal Ash, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Spill, Dhs, Green News

Just how bad has the coal ash situation gotten in the United States? So bad that the Department of Homeland Security has told Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Ca...

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DHS Urged To Expedite Updated Report On Right Wing Extremism

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Right Wing Extremist, People for American Way, Right Wing Violence, Violence Dhs, Dhs, Politics News

Recent incidents of extremist violence claiming the lives of abortion provider George Tiller and a security guard at the Holocaust Museum have prompte...

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DHS Nominee Philip Mudd Drops Out Over Ties To CIA Interrogation Tactics

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Phillip Mudd, Philip Mudd, Dhs, Philip Mudd DHS, DHS Nominee Drops Out, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's pick for intelligence chief at the Homeland Security Department withdrew from consideration Friday amid qu...

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Muslims Disproportionate Victims of Flawed Terrorist Watch List

Parvez Ahmed | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, Terrorism, American Muslims, Muslims, Dhs, Justice Department, Fbi, Cbp, Politics News

It is time for America to reclaim its true legal tradition of judging a person by their actions, not on the basis of their color, practices of their faith or on the basis of their names.

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Napolitano Splits GOP; Leaders Not Calling For Resignation

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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The White House and senior lawmakers on both sides of the aisle defended Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday as a cadre of Republ...

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Rep. Peter King: DHS Should Be Targeting Mosques

Think Progress | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peter King, Department of Homeland Security, Right Wing DHS Report, Rep. Peter King, Dhs, Dhs Report, Politics News

On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report requested by the Bush administration that warned of the rising threat of right...

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DHS Report On Right-Wing Requested By Bush Administration

Think Progress | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Right Wing DHS Report, Dhs Report, Dhs, George W. Bush, Bush DHS Report, Right-Wing-Extremists, Politics News

Yesterday, a Department of Homeland Security report about the rising radicalization of "rightwing extremists" was leaked. The right wing was immediate...

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DHS Dead Fish Lady Suspended

Jeff Stein | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

Read More: homeland_security, Dhs, weapons_of_mass_destruction, dead_fish, Bioterrorism, michael_chertoff, maureen_mcarthy, World News

Maureen McCarthy, the DHS bioweapons official who caused a minor sensation when she brought a mystery fish and white powder to her downtown office, is "on leave for awhile."

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Illegal Immigrants Worked In Immigration Chief's Home

Washington Post | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Chertoff, Chertoff Dhs, Chertoff Workers Illegal Immigrants, Chertoff Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Dhs, Chertoff Cleaning Company, Chertoff Illegal Immigrants, Politics News

Every few weeks for nearly four years, the Secret Service screened the IDs of employees for a Maryland cleaning company before they entered the house ...

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Homeland Security Department In Total Disarray

Boston Globe | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Director, President Obama, Obama's Cabinet, Obama Transition, Dhs, Obama Cabinet, Politics News

As the Department of Homeland Security prepares for its first transition, a series of major projects - including a communication network linking state...

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Homeland Security, Sesame Street Join Forces To Teach Kids About Terror

DC Examiner | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Sesame Street, Terror, Terrorism, Dhs, Duct Tape, Chertoff, Home News

When it comes to securing the homeland, who better to help you sleep at night than various characters from the popular children's show, "Sesame Street...

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