DHS Seeks To 'Accelerate' Use Of Drones By Police
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to "facilitate and accelerate the adoption" of small, unmanned drones by poli...
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to "facilitate and accelerate the adoption" of small, unmanned drones by poli...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.21.2012
The Department of Homeland Security said it is expanding its "If You See Something, Say Something" public awareness campaign to Charlotte, N.C., just ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.17.2012
WASHINGTON -- Immigrant detainees will no longer be treated differently under the law than prison inmates for purposes of rape prevention, the Obama a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.14.2012
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of President Barack Obama's most vocal critics on immigration, was sitting at dinner with his family a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.04.2012
Mitt Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts as the man who saved the 2002 winter Olympics. While much of his focus had been on righting the games in...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.19.2012
WASHINGTON -- Two years after the formal expiration of a controversial Bush-era pact requiring air passenger data be handed over to the U.S. Departmen...
HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 04.19.2012
As the House prepares to vote next week on landmark legislation to protect the nation's computer systems, Republicans have stripped a key provision fr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.09.2012
WASHINGTON -- Two years ago, the Department of Homeland Security began an immigration enforcement program called Secure Communities, designed to find ...
AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 04.06.2012
WASHINGTON — The General Services Administration developed an employee awards program that spent more than $438,000 over four years, far exceedi...
Andrew Becker | Posted 04.06.2012
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's watchdog agency is in turmoil amid allegations that its agents in Texas were told to falsify reports ahead of an office inspection last fall, according to an internal email and interviews.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.02.2012
WASHINGTON -- As Republicans accuse the Obama administration of shirking its responsibilities on immigration enforcement, the agency responsible for i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.30.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security will begin to close deportation cases in Seattle, Detroit, New Orleans and Orlando after it temporar...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.29.2012
WASHINGTON -- To some Republicans in Congress, U.S. immigration detention facilities sound like resorts. That was the premise of a hearing Wednesd...
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.23.2012
Since 9/11, the homeland security state has come to campus just as it has come to America's towns and cities, its places of work and its houses of worship, its public space and its cyberspace.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.08.2012
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 03.12.2012
Last week, just days after this story was posted and after informing the chief spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security that the name on my G...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.25.2012
Ever complain on Facebook that you were feeling "sick?" Told your friends to "watch" a certain TV show? Left a comment on a media website about govern...
David Isenberg | Posted 04.23.2012
Has the role of private military and security companies been overlooked since the al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001? With everything that has been written and said about the subject, from Afghanistan to Iraq and KBR to Wackenhut Services, it is difficult to think that is the case.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers looking into homeland security officials' practice of monitoring social media sites seized on a report Thursday by a civil lib...
AP | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 04.09.2012
HOWELL, Mich. — The 2010 Buick Enclave parked in her garage kept Michigan resident Renee Moore from getting food stamps for two months last year...
Posted 02.09.2012
Durango's controversial high school headliner Sydney Spies submitted a third modeling photo for yearbook approval that was also denied. After turning ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 02.07.2012
WASHINGTON -- The agency tasked with finding and deporting undocumented immigrants announced on Tuesday the creation of a new position that will work ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 02.07.2012
As a tide of poverty rises throughout the country, the Bronx stands out as a place where the waters have climbed especially high. So it's no great sur...
Human Rights First | Posted 04.04.2012
When Arben's visa was denied, a staffer at one office told me that my only options were to divorce Arben or move to Kosovo. I don't think I should have to do either of those things. I married Arben for better or for worse. I take that vow seriously, and I want to make my life with him.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.30.2012
WASHINGTON -- A top administration official on Monday signaled that the focus of homeland security in 2012 would shift in emphasis to business and the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.22.2012