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I just sat through a surreal Committee on Homeland Security hearing where the minutia of biometric tracking of legal immigrants was discussed and not a peep was uttered about our totally unsecure border with Mexico and other land-border-crossing controls were dismissed as “difficult.”
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Everyone is pretty familiar with the threat levels that were instituted after 9/11/2001. Now a committee is deciding whether they should keep it or at least modify it.
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The number of suspected terrorists in the United States has hit one million, an increase of 32 percent since 2007. Has this terrorist-tracking program gotten out of hand?
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One wouldn’t think that warnings of too much money to spend would be heard during a House Subcommittee on Aviation hearing in Washington, DC; but they were. The passing of the stimulus bill means there is a lot of money, but the U.S. and the stated don’t have the mechanisms in place, nor the controls, to efficiently spend that much.
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Ever wonder what’s in your file that the Department of Homeland Security keeps? Newsweek’s Sean O’Neill did and he ordered a copy through the Freedom of Information Act. What he found is pretty interesting.
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Remember Captain James Langenhahn, the US Airways pilot who “accidentally” fired his gun while stowing it during his plane’s approach to Charlotte Douglas International last March? The bullet pierced the plane’s fuselage, but no one was hurt, and the plane landed safely. A new report suggests he may have done nothing wrong.
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Turns out the Department of Homeland Security isn’t the only agency confiscating traveler’s laptops. Foreign governments are targeting the PCs of US corporate and government personnel traveling abroad, according to a secret document released last week. And it’s about to get worse.
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A debate is raging over whether exit controls are necessary for foreigners visiting the USA and even more importantly, who will will pay for establishing these exit control mechanisms — the airlines or the government.
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Last summer I warned America should be concerned with new homeland security regulations because they were creating a secret watch list of passenger information. Now, with these new regulations vetted and barely protested, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is starting to do what it promised: share the data with other governments.
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Maine is the last state to be granted a waiver for the implementation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Real ID program. Maine’s drivers licenses currently require no proof of residency or a check on immigration status.
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