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DHS Seeks To 'Accelerate' Use Of Drones By Police

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Government Surveillance, Video, Police Drones, Drone Licensing, Faa, Homeland Security, Uavs, Surveillance, Border Security, Dhs, Drones, Predator Drones, Privacy, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to "facilitate and accelerate the adoption" of small, unmanned drones by poli...

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Just In Time For Democratic Convention: 'See Something, 'Say Something' Starts In Charlotte

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Video, Charlotte-North Carolina, Democratic National Convention, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Occupy Wall Street, Elections 2012, See Something Say Something, Dhs, Politics News

The Department of Homeland Security said it is expanding its "If You See Something, Say Something" public awareness campaign to Charlotte, N.C., just ...

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Obama Administration Expands Prison Rape Elimination Act To Protect Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Cca, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Doj, Prea, Prison Rape, Prison Abuse, Sexual Assault, T. Don Hutto Facility, Department of Homeland Security, Video, Detention Center, Corrections Corporation of America, Department of Justice, Dhs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Immigrant detainees will no longer be treated differently under the law than prison inmates for purposes of rape prevention, the Obama a...

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Disappointed Democrats Fight Obama On Immigration -- And Campaign For Him

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...

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Mitt Romney's Homeland Security Record In Massachusetts: Everyone A Suspect

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Department of Homeland Security, Gov-Romney, Video, Mitt Romney Massachusetts, Dhs, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Domestic Spying, Politics News

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...

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Europeans Hold Nose, Agree To Air Passenger Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Tsa, Video, Pnr-Agreement, Terrorism, Pnr-Eu, European Union, Airport Security, Airline Passengers, Air Passenger Data, Dhs, Air Travel, Passenger-Name-Records, Politics News

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...

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'Extremely Partisan' GOP Impeding Progress On Cybersecurity Bill, Democrat Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity, Dhs, Dan Lungren, Cybersecurity Legislation, Cyberattack, PRECISE Act, Hackers, Technology News

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...

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Homeland Security Didn't Mean To Deceive Communities -- But Did, Inspector Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Video, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security, Immigration Enforcement, Secure Communities, Immigration, Secure Communities Opt-Out, Dhs, Ice, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Two years ago, the Department of Homeland Security began an immigration enforcement program called Secure Communities, designed to find ...

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Agency's Awards Program Wildly Overspent

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Gsa Las Vegas, General Services Administration, Gsa Conference, Gsa Awards Program, Gsa, Dhs, Hats Off Program, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The General Services Administration developed an employee awards program that spent more than $438,000 over four years, far exceedi...

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Homeland Security Office Accused of Faking Reports on Internal Investigations

Andrew Becker | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Inspector General, Justice Department, Dhs, Fbi, Corruption, Department of Homeland Security, Politics News, Politics News

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.

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Thousands Arrested In Immigration Operation

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, John Morton, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Illegal Immigrants, Secure Communities, Immigration, Dhs, Ice, Deportation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As Republicans accuse the Obama administration of shirking its responsibilities on immigration enforcement, the agency responsible for i...

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DHS Expanding Deportation Reviews To 4 More Cities

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Reform, Video, Obama Deportation, Dhs Deportations, Dhs, Slidepollajax, Dhs Deportations Review, Obama Immigration Reform, Deportation, Latino Voices News

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security will begin to close deportation cases in Seattle, Detroit, New Orleans and Orlando after it temporar...

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Immigrant Detention TOO Nice, House Republicans Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Detention Centers, Lamar Smith, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Holiday on ICE, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration, Immigration Detention, Ice, Dhs, Immigrant Detention, Zoe Lofgren, Elton Gallegly, Steve King, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- To some Republicans in Congress, U.S. immigration detention facilities sound like resorts. That was the premise of a hearing Wednesd...

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Repress U, Class of 2012: 7 Steps to a Homeland Security Campus

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Cia, University of Puerto Rico, Homeland Security Campus, University of Wisconsin, University of Texas, University of Arizona, City University of New York, Occupy Wall Street, Ice, UC Irvine, Ows, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Civil Liberties, Department of Defense, Nypd, UC Davis, Stratfor, Surveillance, Muslim Students Association, University of North Carolina, Dhs, Homeland Security, UC Berkeley, Twitter, New York Police Department, Department of Homeland Security, University of California, DREAM Act, Private Security Contractors, SWAT Team, Repress U, Fbi, Sevis, College News

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.

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U.S. Hate And Extremist Groups Hit Record Levels, New Report Says

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Hate Crimes, Hate Groups, Terrorism, Fbi, Militias, Sovereign Citizen, Dhs, Bv-Politics, Politics News

The number of domestic hate and extremist groups in the United States grew to record levels in 2011, led by a surge in anti-government radicalism.

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No Questions Asked, Or How I Became A 'Trusted Traveler'

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...

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The Keywords Government Uses To Monitor Social Media

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Social Media, Video, Foia, Natural Disasters, Epic, Seo, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Twitter-Privacy, Online Privacy, Facebook Privacy, Dhs, Privacy, Politics News

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...

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PSC = Private Security Counterterrorist

David Isenberg | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Private Military Security Contractors, Dhs, Cia, Blackwater, Counterterrorism, David Perry, Department of Homeland Security, Business News

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.

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Lawmakers Enraged Over DHS Program To Monitor Online Comments On Government

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Homeland Security Social Media, Department of Homeland Security, Social Media, Video, Twitter, Dhs Social Media, Epic, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Online Privacy, Facebook, Dhs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers looking into homeland security officials' practice of monitoring social media sites seized on a report Thursday by a civil lib...

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States Take Aim At Food Stamps

AP | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Video, Government Assistance, Food Stamps, Pennsylvania Food Stamps, Michigan Food Stamps, Michigan DHS, Pennsylvania DHS, Food Stamp Eligibility, Dhs, Politics News

HOWELL, Mich. — The 2010 Buick Enclave parked in her garage kept Michigan resident Renee Moore from getting food stamps for two months last year...

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Third Photo Rejected By Yearbook, Editors Choose For Her

Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Student Press Law Center, Video, Dhs, Yearbook Photos, Durango High School, Sydney Spies, High School Yearbook, Miki-Spies, Denver News

Durango's controversial high school headliner Sydney Spies submitted a third modeling photo for yearbook approval that was also denied. After turning ...

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Immigrant Advocates Skeptical On New DHS Public Advocate Position

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Detainers, John Morton, Immigration, Immigration Detention, Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, Deportation, Department of Homeland Security, Barack Obama Immigration, Immigration Reform, Video, Barack Obama Deportation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secure Communities, Immigration Enforcement, Dhs, Ice, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The agency tasked with finding and deporting undocumented immigrants announced on Tuesday the creation of a new position that will work ...

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Amid A Rising Tide Of Poverty, A Proposal To Change New York's Homeless Shelters

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...

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Dear DHS: My Husband Is Not a Terrorist -- Can He Come Home?

Human Rights First | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Asylum Seekers, Terrorism Bars, Immigration Detention, Dhs, Human Rights First, Asylum, Refugee Protection Program, Impact News

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.

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Janet Napolitano: Homeland Security, Economic Security Go 'Hand-In-Hand'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Global Supply Chain, Cargo, Video, Economy, Davos, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Supply Chain, Janet Napolitano Homeland Security, Dhs, National Press Club, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A top administration official on Monday signaled that the focus of homeland security in 2012 would shift in emphasis to business and the...

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