DNA Sensors Getting Ready to Sniff Out Terrorist Attacks – Homeland Security Outlook
Researchers at the MITRE Corporation are developing genetically engineered bio-sensors, and while they’re still a few years from the marketplace, these sensors promise to be even more accurate than today’s detection devices – and they’ll cost far less.
Axelrod Backs Away from Committing to Immigration Reform in 2010 – Change.org
While we listen to Representative Luis Gutierrez giving yet another talk for immigration reform today, the Obama Administration has slowly backed away from a firm promise, which sends us mixed signals. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano is confident that Congress can take up immigration reform in early 2010 but David Axelrod, the top political advisor to President Obama, refused to make any such commitment when he appeared on the State of the Union this past Sunday with John King.
On October 27, I participated in a panel on “U.S. Policy toward Cuba: Key Considerations for National Security” and tried to bring a pragmatic approach to the discussion on the current debate over the country’s status as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.
DHS information-sharing initiative stalls due to privacy concerns – Nextgov A proposed Homeland Security Department information-sharing initiative faces ongoing funding challenges, due to congressional concerns over privacy. For the third year in a row, Congress as part of the Homeland Security spending bill prohibited DHS from using appropriated funds to stand up the National Immigration […]
Mexican official in US custody doesn’t want asylum – El Paso Times A Mexican human rights official who has publicly said he feared for his life has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities as an asylum-seeker—even though he doesn’t want American protection, his lawyer said.
Does McCain back ban on Arpaio immigration sweeps? – Glenn Thrush – POLITICO.com Sen. John McCain — a fervent sponsor of immigration reform — is once again being dragged into the messy border war of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is defying the Obama administration’s ban on his highly controversial illegal immigrant sweeps in […]
By Douglas Doan
Don’t look now, but it looks as if we are about to go through another bruising battle on immigration reform. Here’s an idea, let’s do something that would strengthen the country, make us more competitive, and fuel economic growth. It is actually quite easy.
The tortured saga of RT is pretty well known, but during his confirmation hearing Thursday, the nominee for Administrator for the Transportation Security Administration Erroll Southers indicated his strong support for a risk-based Registered Traveler program.
This week has been a telling one for those of us who follow border security closely. Congress and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have made a series of bold moves that arguably make our borders less secure. At the same time, the changes will be hailed by some as overdue upgrades to a flawed border management policy that built fences between neighbors and sought to imprison illegal aliens for ‘just’ entering the country.
At a time when the economy is in the toilet, when we’re fighting (and perhaps losing) wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when healthcare is becoming a fading memory, and we’ve got to worry about Ahmadinejad trying to get his hands on a nuke with all the fervor of a Wall Street fat-cat chasing down a government bailout, Congress seems more concerned about finding ways to belittle one another than fulfilling the oath to serve.
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