From Foreign Policy: For years citizens from 38 countries ranging from Andorra to New Zealand have been able to enter the United States without a visa. With terror risks growing, however, calls to get rid of the program are growing louder. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson defended the program Thursday against critics who say it […]
From The National Review: Representative Steve King and Senators Ted Cruz and Chuck Grassley have reintroduced the Expatriate Terrorist Act, a bill to strip U.S. citizenship from terrorists. The proposal sounds nice in theory, but it is also unconstitutional and unnecessary, the latest in a sad line of civil-liberties infringements justified by politicians trying to […]
From Politico: Top Republicans are increasingly unworried about missing the Department of Homeland Security’s funding deadline. The Feb. 27 deadline was supposed to mark the next stage in Congress’ fight on President Barack Obama’s immigration policies, but now, leading Republicans say the fallout would be limited if Congress fails to act. In private conversations and […]
From The Washington Post: A bi-partisan group of Senators is questioning why the White House has not nominated a new Transportation Security Administration head more than three months after the agency’s previous leader announced he was stepping down, saying that TSA should be a greater priority at a time of heightened concern about terrorist threats […]
From The Hill: A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that defending the country against terrorism should be the No. 1 priority for the federal government. It was ranked as a priority higher than the economy, jobs, education and Social Security. For the first time in the past five years, homeland security received […]
From CNN: The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a “device,” described as a small drone, found on the grounds of the White House, a White House official said Monday, and Press Secretary Josh Earnest said early indications are that the device does not pose an ongoing threat.
From HSToday: In what Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (DHS IG) John Roth believes is an attempt to conceal negative information from the public, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) redacted information from a recent IG audit report on TSA’s computer security shortcomings at John F. Kennedy International Airport. After reviewing the IG’s draft […]
From Emergency Management: The September arrests/detentions in Australia of suspected Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) supporters who had allegedly been planning to kidnap random people, decapitate them and then drape their bodies in the group’s flag and post the entire horrific event live to the Internet has brought to the forefront one of […]
From FiveThirtyEight: Soon after the terrorist attacks in Paris earlier this month, when three assailants massacred people in the office of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket, a researcher at the University of Maryland at College Park carefully logged the details of the violence (location, names of the perpetrators, weapons used, […]
From The Atlanta Journal Constitution: Stepping up the rhetoric over immigration, the head of the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday night denounced a new bill on border security from Congressional Republicans, charging it was “not a serious effort” to restrain illegal immigration over the southern border of the United States. The bill, H.R. 399, […]
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