The Department of Homeland Security is once again renewing the temporary protected status for some Somali immigrants living in the United States. -- The protected status, first issued in 2001, will now expire in March 2014, meaning that Somali immigrants can stay in the U.S. until then. Homeland Security says their status is being extended because of an ongoing armed conflict and severe drought in Somalia...
CBS News -- Washington -- April 26, 2012  The Transportation Security Administration is once again the subject of national scrutiny, this time after aggressively screening a 7-year-old female passenger with cerebral palsy which caused her family to miss their flight. -- The girl, identified as Dina Frank in a report by The Daily, was waiting with her family on Monday to board a flight departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York headed to Florida...
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Steve Watson -- Infowars -- April 26, 2012  A US Congressman has claimed that he was assaulted during a TSA patdown and was then targeted for future patdowns by the TSA after complaining about the incident. -- Texas Rep. Francisco Canseco says he was inappropriately touched in private areas during a run in with the TSA earlier this month at San Antonio International Airport...
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Ed Ashurst -- Federal Observer -- April 26, 2012  "The border is not a fence or a line in the dirt... it is a third country that joins Mexico and the United States." – David Aguilar, Chief Border Patrol Agent under the Obama-Napolitano regime. -- The above statement made by Obama's head Border Patrol agent set off a firestorm of controversy and anger from everyone except those encamped in the midst of the radical left and guaranteed Mr. Anguilar a permanent seat at the current administrations round table that has been graced with the likes of Tony Rezko...
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Kimberly Dvorak -- The Examiner -- April 26, 2012  The DEA announced that two former and two current Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners, who worked at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) were arrested on federal narcotics trafficking and bribery charges. The TSA screeners allegedly took cash payments and allowed large shipments of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana to pass through the X-ray machines at security checkpoints...
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London Daily Mail -- April 25, 2012 The former head of the Transportation Security Administration has once again lambasted the country's airport security system. -- Kip Hawley, who was head of the TSA from , says he understands why the public is 'fed-up' with the agency, because lengthy security checks and a laundry list of banned items do little to stop terrorists and need to be streamlined...
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London Guardian -- April 24, 2012  Of all the many complaints about airport security and the TSA, one of the most common is that they make little distinction between plausible security threats and passengers unlikely to be doing anything wrong. -- And a recent incident in Wichita, Kansas has reinforced that argument, as a four-year-old girl was apparently subjected to a humiliating ordeal after she hugged her grandmother while she was waiting in line...
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Jennifer Abel -- London Guardian -- April 21, 2012 Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists have shouted down all constitutional or human rights objections with the mantra "If you don't like it, don't fly!"
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Raymond Herrera -- The Sun -- San Bernardino, Calif. -- April 20, 2012  In the year 1789 James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution, Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers feared there would be a future president such as Barack Obama. -- The Obama administration and his unelected Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas are an ominous threat to the republic...
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Paul Joseph Watson -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- April 18, 2012   A new program in Houston will place undercover TSA agents and police officers on buses whose job it will be to perform bag searches, watch for "suspicious activity" and interrogate passengers in order to 'curb crime and terrorism.' -- Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee unveiled the program, labeled Bus Safe, during a press conference on Friday...
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KSAZ-TV -- Phoenix -- April 17, 2012  Students at the University of California Los Angeles walked out as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano addressed the immigration controversy. -- Expanding on national security issues spanning from international threats to natural disasters, Napolitano said the government prioritizes issues of homeland security, border security and immigration...
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Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- April 12, 2012  As crime and violence continues along the U.S.- Mexican border unabated and overwhelmed federal agents are increasingly attacked by heavily armed drug smugglers, the nation's Homeland Security chief assures Americans that the de facto war zone is "as secure as it has ever been," according to a non-partisan, public interest group based in Washington, DC...
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New York Post -- April 4, 2012 She should switch to decaf. -- A TSA screener was arrested at JFK Airport for hurling a cup of hot coffee at an American Airlines pilot who told her and some colleagues to tone down a profanity- laced conversation in a terminal, sources said yesterday. -- The dust-up occurred at about 5 a.m. on March 28, when airman Steven Trivett, 54, who was off-duty, was exiting Terminal 8 and overheard the banter... []
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Judicial Watch via Weasel Zippers -- April 3, 2012  In its quest to implement stealth amnesty, the Obama Administration is working behind the scenes to halt the deportation of certain illegal [aliens] by granting them "unlawful presence waivers." -- The new measure would apply to illegal aliens who are relatives of American citizens. Here is how it would work, according to a (DHS) announcement posted in today's Federal Register...
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Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- April 2, 2012  A number of representatives from watchdog groups, government agencies and the U.S. Congress are intensifying their criticism of the Obama Administration's handling of illegal immigration and the Department of Homeland Security's shortcomings in policing the immigration and visa system. -- For example, the successful and well-known "Inside the Beltway" watchdog group -- that's respected by those...
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Los Angeles Times -- March 30, 2012  The Obama administration is proposing to make it easier for illegal [aliens] who are family members of American citizens to apply for legal permanent residency. -- On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security will post for public comment an administrative change intended to reduce the time illegal [aliens] would have to spend away from their families while applying for legal status, officials said...
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NewsMax.com -- March 29, 2012 House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith is belittling the Obama administration's new operating standards at federal immigration detention centers as "hospitality guides for illegal aliens." -- "Under this administration, detention looks more like recess," the Texas Republican said Wednesday. "While funds for American students' physical education classes are being cut, the new detention standards expand recreation..."
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Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- March 29, 2012  The Department of Homeland Security, the nation's third largest federal agency with a workforce of over 200,000 federal workers, suffers from a bad case of low employee morale, according to a just released report submitted to the U.S. Congress on Thursday. -- Since its creation in 2003, DHS has faced challenges implementing functions, and its employees have reported having low job satisfaction...
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The American Dream -- March 29, 2012 Somebody out there has decided that the Department of Homeland Security needs a whole lot of ammunition. Recently it was announced that ATK was awarded a contract to provide up to 450 MILLION hollow point bullets to the Department of Homeland Security over the next five years. -- Is it just me, or does that sound incredibly excessive? What in the world is the DHS going to do with 450 million rounds?
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Steve Watson -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- March 27, 2012  The TSA ensured that a leading security expert, who has been vocally critical of the agency's screening methods, was barred from speaking before a Congressional hearing yesterday. -- The hearing, before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was held Monday in an effort to evaluate the agency's performance and address concerns raised by lawmakers, experts in the field...
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Daily Caller -- March 23, 2012 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials presented The Daily Caller with a less-than-clear explanation of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's Feb. 15 comments that ICE would not increase cooperation with Alabama on its tough deportation program called "Secure Communities" while a state illegal immigration law is adjudicated...
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Intel Hub -- March If you thought the criteria for suspicious activity in terms of potential terrorism couldn't get any more broad and ludicrous, prepare to be taken aback. -- The culture of citizen spying and pervasive paranoia in the United States is getting to the point of patent absurdity, yet somehow many American nonsensically seem to continue to treat it as gospel.
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Paul Joseph Watson -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- March 19, 2012  The following video provides airports with yet another fantastic reason to evict TSA screeners and replace them with private security --- the clip shows a 3-year-old boy with a broken leg in a wheelchair being harassed by a TSA worker. -- The incident occurred at O'Hare Airport in Chicago and was recorded by the father of the 3-year-old boy... []
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Fox News Latino -- March 19, 2012 Recently published reports have focused on a letter submitted on March 1st by Congressman Darrel Issa to Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. Issa is the Californian Republican who chairs the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. His letter demanded Napolitano address claims that the Border Patrol has been "cooking the books"...
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Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- March 16, 2012  The chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said on Friday that he's still waiting for Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to respond to a disturbing accusation that she and her underlings at DHS released deceptive and inaccurate information about illegal aliens sneaking across borders into the United States...
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David North -- Center for Immigration Studies -- March 16, 2012 Instead of spending its limited resources on important issues --- like who should and who should not come to the United States --- USCIS has, yet again, spent executive energy and federal money on a population so tiny that one would need a microscope to find it. -- This time the population consists of one or more wandering, footloose, nonimmigrant ministers...
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KPCC-FM -- Pasadena, Calif. -- March 16, 2012  The federal government plans to change the rules to make it easier for some [illegal alien] relatives of U.S. citizens to stay in this country. The nation's top immigration official insists this is not amnesty. -- Under current law, the [illegal alien] spouse or children of a U.S. citizen can apply for what's called a '601 waiver.' It grants permission to stay in the U.S. due to a hardship...
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Daily Caller -- March 16, 2012  Members of Congress are openly criticizing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano after tough questions from Alabama Republican Rep. Mike Rogers revealed that she halted a tough deportation program involving his state and her Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. -- Testifying on Feb. 15 before the House Homeland Security Committee, Napolitano said pending federal litigation...
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NBC News -- March 16, 2012  On an isolated ranch 10 miles from the Mexican border in southern Arizona, Tangye Beckham worries about what the night will bring. That's usually when her family's 100-acre ranch begins to crawl with drug and immigrant traffickers from Mexico heading north into the United States. -- 'They're belligerent, they carry weapons,' she said. 'It's a nightly problem with them being on the property...'
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Jennifer Harper -- Washington Times -- March 16, 2012  He wants those numbers: Rep. Darrell E. Issa has set a deadline of Thursday for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Intent on investigating allegations that the federal agency released "false and misleading border-crossing data," the California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has asked her for 2011 operational records from eight border-patrol stations...
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CNN -- March 15, 2012  A Florida airport is pushing to join 16 other U.S. airports in opting out of Transportation Security Administration screening in favor of private screeners. -- Orlando Sanford International Airport has been trying to get approval since last year to join the TSA's Screening Partnership Program, which helps airports hire qualified private screening companies to enforce security protocol set and overseen by the TSA...
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Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- March 15, 2012 Reeling from recent fresh backlash, the TSA says it is relaxing security procedures for over 75s – essentially Big Sis has promised to stop feeling up grandma at the airport. -- According to reports, new TSA rules will allow the elderly to keep on shoes and jackets, and agents will be advised to avoid carrying out pat downs unless absolutely necessary...
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Cronkite News Service -- Phoenix -- March 7, 2012 Gov. Jan Brewer accused Washington officials Tuesday of falsely claiming that Arizona's border with Mexico is more secure than ever. -- "Tell that to the survivors and friends of Robert Krentz, a dedicated community-minded man shot to death on the same Cochise (County) ranch his family had called home for more than 100 years," she told those attending the 6th Annual Border Security Expo..
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Rick Oltman -- The Examiner -- March 6, 2012 Congressman Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, and Congressman Jason Chaffetz, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on National Security and Homeland Defense have sent a letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano informing her that they are investigating allegations from DHS employees that the agency has released "false and misleading border crossing data..." [More from Rick Oltman] |
Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- March 6, 2012  While we are constantly being told by President Obama and Republican contenders such as Newt Gingrich that we simply "cannot deport millions of people." However, history proves this to be a lie. -- In 1954, President Dwight David Eisenhower appointed his West Point classmate and 101st Airborne Division veteran Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing as head of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service...
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Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- March 6, 2012  The Department of Homeland Security has moved its surveillance operations on campus. -- On Thursday of last week, DHS boss Janet Napolitano appointed University of Montana President Royce Engstrom to a newly formed council, the Homeland Security Advisory Council. -- It is made up of 19 university and college heads from around the country and will "advise the department on a wide range of issues...."
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Washington Times -- March 4, 2012 About 77 percent of the 327,577 illegal aliens caught along the Mexican border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection during fiscal 2011 were not prosecuted, according to government data analyzed by the office of Rep. John Culberson. -- The Texas Republican, whose district includes parts of Houston, submitted a document containing the data for the record at a Wednesday hearing of...
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U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn -- Forbes -- March 1, 2012 One of the great honors of my service to Tennessee is having the opportunity to represent Ft. Campbell which is home to the storied 101st Airborne, the 5th Special Forces Group and the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment which piloted Navy SEAL Team Six during the raid on Osama Bin Laden. -- Each soldier who calls Ft. Campbell home has gone through some of the most intensive training on the planet...
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Seattle Times -- March 1, 2012  Human- and [illegal alien "rights"] groups in 13 northern border states are asking Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to enact policies to stem what they say is a growing number of cases of harassment and abuse by U.S. Border Patrol officers of people living in communities along the border. -- In a letter, the Northern Border Coalition relates what it says are a series of such incidents by Border Patrol officers...
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Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- February 29, 2012  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was in Mexico City on Monday to meet with Mexican Interior Minister Alejandro Poire. -- After their meeting, Napolitano held a press conference in which she insisted that the Mexican government's war against the drug cartels "is not a failure." -- This, despite the fact that many experts on the subject say that the cartels are now in control...
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Cypress (Texas) Times -- February 29, 2012  Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner David Aguilar, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton and Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin Monday traveled to Mexico City and Guatemala City to meet with their international counterparts and discuss...
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Dr. Milton R. Wolf -- Washington Times -- February 28, 2012 "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction," warned the late President Reagan. It's probably a good thing the Gipper hasn't been forced to witness what the current generation of authoritarian rulers has done to the land of the free and home of the brave. -- Public schools in San Antonio have installed video cameras, not to monitor for foul play or intruders, but to spy on kids' eating habits...
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InSightCrime.org -- February 28, 2012  The United States Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano, has annonced that the US government will change its deportation policy for illegal Mexican [aliens], flying them to their place of origin in an effort to combat border violence. -- Napolitano made the announcement at a press conference in Mexico City, explaining that the US will pilot its new program in April by providing air transportation to Mexicans...
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NextGov.com -- February 28, 2012  The Homeland Security Department plans to scrap a second attempt at a failed $1 billion virtual fence along the border with Mexico if officials are unable to find technologies already on the market that can operate in the rugged Southwest. -- The department has not released a formal request for the work yet, but DHS' Customs and Border Protection informed contractors on Feb. 16 that the government is not willing to risk...
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Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser -- February 28, 2012 A group of [illegal aliens] received suspended sentences Monday afternoon for blocking South Union Street during a Nov. 15 protest of Alabama's immigration law. -- The defendants, ranging in age from 19 to 57, were each given five-day suspended sentences and ordered to pay a $50 fine and at least $217 in court costs. Individual defendants could pay more in court costs...
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Daily Caller -- February 27, 2012  The death of a Chicago man killed by a drunk driver who was in the United States illegally has become an unlikely catalyst in the national policy debate over immigration. Eight Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder on January 30, asking them to cut off some federal funding currently sent to Cook County, Illinois...
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A casino customer was detained by immigration officials for nearly a week, then released here in the U.S., despite his illegal status. -- U.S. Border Patrol says a typical detention after catching someone in the U.S. illegally is 72 hours. But it varies depending on the case. -- In this case the man, identified only as Sebastian, said he was wrongly detained for 6 days, earlier this month...
Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- February 22, 2012  The Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will no longer train local law enforcement to check the immigration status of those they arrest, identifying illegal aliens for detention and deportation. -- The program, known as 287(g) allows police to investigate a suspect's immigration status after an arrest had been made for any offense and has been highly effective in identifying criminal aliens at the local level...
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Kesler Dufrene, who last year slaughtered three people in North Miami after being let out of immigration custody, wasn't the only convict released to the streets because of a moratorium on deportations to Haiti. -- According to newly released federal statistics, 687 Haitians slated for deportation were released to the streets in 2010 because of the year-long moratorium on deportations to the earthquake-ravaged island...
Paul Joseph Watson -- Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- February 20, 2012  The Department of Homeland Security has hired hundreds of security guards to protect scores of government buildings across the country as the federal agency prepares for terror threats and potential civil disorder in the United States. -- "One company, Vendtech-SGI, LLC, of McLean, VA, landed a contract worth more than $311.5 million to provide about 600 guards to protect approximately 200 different posts..."
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Alex Newman -- The New American -- February 20, 2012 Under the guise of environmentalism, various federal agencies and departments are blocking Border Patrol agents' access to critical areas while contributing to widespread lawlessness along the U.S. border, according to experts. Criminals, meanwhile, are taking full advantage of the rapidly deteriorating situation. -- Despite claims by the Obama administration that the American border is "safer" or "more secure" than ever...
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USA Today -- February 19, 2012  The Obama administration is starting to shut down a program that deputized local police officers to act as immigration agents. -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have trained local officers around the country to act as their agencies' immigration officers. Working either in jails or in the field, the officers can check the immigration status of suspects and place immigration holds on them...
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Christian Science Monitor -- February 18, 2012  The internecine shootout that ended with one Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent dead and another critically wounded in Long Beach, Calif., on Thursday comes on the heels of an Obama administration effort to relieve dysfunction and morale problems within a frontline agency tasked with enforcing the nation's border laws. -- The shootings came during an apparent counseling session...
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David North -- Center for Immigration Studies  Most people are not aware that the fine print of the Department of Homeland Security's new budget includes a set of grants "to help strengthen the nation against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks and other hazards" ...to be awarded to Indian tribes. -- A total of $6 million has been set aside for this purpose; it even has its own initials, which are THSGP, for the Tribal Homeland Security Grant Program...
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Fox News Latino -- February 18, 2012  Long Beach, Calif. -- The deadly shooting of a supervisor by an immigration special agent earlier this week in California is the latest blow against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the law enforcement agency created after the 2001 terror attacks. -- Its officers and agents have themselves been arrested for crimes, accused of improper relationships with informants, convicted in embezzlement cases, and more...
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U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert -- February 18, 2012 A former Mexican government official wanted for embezzling millions was arrested in Texas this month, then promptly ordered released by the State Department in a case that has one lawmaker demanding answers. -- A day after pulling rank on Smith County law enforcement officials, the State Department rescinded the order. But Hector Hernandez Javier Villarreal was gone by then...
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Houston Chronicle -- February 18, 2012 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano was grilled by House Republicans on Wednesday over the Operation Fast and Furious, the botched Justice Department gun sting. -- Napolitano's hearing before the House's Homeland Security Committee was planned as a hearing about President Obama's 2013 proposed budget for the Department of Homeland Security...
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The Hill -- Washington -- February 16, 2012  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said agency officials do not weed through the tweets of incoming foreign travelers in an attempt to spot potential terrorists. -- "We aren't sitting there monitoring social media looking for stuff, that's not what we do," said Napolitano at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday...
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Brenham (Texas) Banner-Press -- February 16, 2012 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano did not rule out the possibility that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms misled her department about the intent of Operation Fast & Furious to put guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. -- Napolitano testified Wednesday at a U.S. House subcommittee hearing. -- "I hope they did not," Napolitano responded to Congressman Michael McCaul...
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Kurt Nimmo -- Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- February 16, 2012 Despite all the hype drummed up by the establishment media about a scary Iranian or Hezbollah attack on "soft targets" in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security has admitted there is no specific threat facing the country. -- House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King fretted over a Hezbollah attack on the fatherland --- specifically synagogues --- but DHS boss Napolitano was obliged to admit...
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram -- February 16, 2012  McAllen, Texas -- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will visit South Texas next week to review Customs and Border Protection operations. -- Homeland Security spokesman Matt Chandler says Napolitano will be in McAllen on Monday and Tuesday. She will receive briefings and observe efforts to secure the border. -- ...Acting CBP Commissioner David Aguilar will join Napolitano...
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Business Week -- February 15, 2012  The Obama administration isn't doing enough to crack down on illegal immigration and its focus on deporting those with criminal records is too narrow, U.S. House Republican lawmakers said. -- During a hearing today before the House Appropriations homeland security subcommittee, Republicans told Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that she's neglecting to remove from the U.S. the majority of illegal [aliens]...
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GOPUSA.com -- February 15, 2012  How's this for government incompetence. A wanted fugitive was arrested in Texas on a routine traffic stop. After searching the car, sheriff's officials found cash and a shotgun. Upon doing a background check, they realized they had a wanted man on their hands. The next day, however, federal officials told local law enforcement to release the suspect. Guess what happened next? He promptly disappeared!
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Washington Examiner -- February 15, 2012 President Obama's border enforcement officials prevented over 13,000 dangerous hair dryers from entering the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trumpeted today. -- "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized thousands of hair dryers recently that were determined to constitute a "substantial product hazard" under U.S. law, for failing to have adequate immersion protection," DHS announced...
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Houston Chronicle -- February 15, 2012 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano was grilled by House Republicans on Wednesday over the Operation Fast and Furious, the botched Justice Department gun sting.Napolitano's hearing before the House's Homeland Security Committee was planned as a hearing about President Obama's 2013 proposed budget for the Department of Homeland Security...
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Advocates on all sides of the immigration debate are digesting the latest big, and perhaps historic, development: The U.S. government agreed to pay a $350,000 settlement to 11 Connecticut men arrested in raids in 2007. -- The plaintiffs claimed immigration agents violated their rights during the early morning raids, which snared nearly three dozen people...
