The Case for Detention Reform
Prisons should be for criminals, not honest, productive people caught up in the byzantine morass of our broken immigration system.
Prisons should be for criminals, not honest, productive people caught up in the byzantine morass of our broken immigration system.
Salam Al Marayati | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
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.
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.
Abukar Arman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
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.
Craig Newmark | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
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...
The Washington Post | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers wi...
Frank Naif | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
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.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to kill a program begun by the Bush administration that would use U.S. spy satel...
Posted 07.13.2009 | Green
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
Recent incidents of extremist violence claiming the lives of abortion provider George Tiller and a security guard at the Holocaust Museum have prompte...
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's pick for intelligence chief at the Homeland Security Department withdrew from consideration Friday amid qu...
Parvez Ahmed | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
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.
The Hill | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
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...
Think Progress | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report requested by the Bush administration that warned of the rising threat of right...
Think Progress | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, a Department of Homeland Security report about the rising radicalization of "rightwing extremists" was leaked. The right wing was immediate...
Jeff Stein | Posted 03.27.2009 | World
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."
Washington Post | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
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 ...
Boston Globe | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
As the Department of Homeland Security prepares for its first transition, a series of major projects - including a communication network linking state...
DC Examiner | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home
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...
Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver