Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of… Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has concocted a remarkable new policy: It reserves the right to seize for an indefinite period of time laptops taken across the border.
A pair of DHS… Continue reading
Authorities need a search warrant to get at a computer in your home, and reasonable suspicion that you’re up to… Continue reading
Police officers from around Washtenaw County descended on Ann Arbor’s Pioneer High School Friday for the first coordinated training session of a team designed to… Continue reading
The federal government has agreed to allow most New York residents to use a new, more secure driver license to cross the border.
A few days after I was illegally stopped by a Homeland Security Roving Patrol late at night along SR86 in Southern Arizona, the news article appearing below was published in the Arizona Daily Star… Continue reading
According to the news articles linked to below, the Department of Homeland Security has continued the expansion of its un-American enforcement activities by directing them against Washington State residents utilizing Northwest domestic Ferry services.
Specifically… Continue reading
As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress… Continue reading
Two representatives have urged Congress to take action to address the worsening situation on the southern border which has been described by reporters and activist groups as "an all out war." … Continue reading
Tempe, Arizona - Twelve sets of eyes darted across the dark room, waiting for one of the seven floor-to-ceiling video screens to light up. Seconds later, the center screen illuminated, revealing a newscast… Continue reading
The latest opportunity for authorities to grandstand, fearmonger and practice processing citizens through a de facto internment camp fell flat on its face yesterday after just 350 out of an expected 4,000 turned up to… Continue reading
As predicted last week, ICE has begun factory raids of illegal aliens in Iowa. This was not very difficult to predict. The federal government last week leased out the National Cattle… Continue reading
In the case of a flu pandemic — yes, say government officials in a new report.
Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won’t get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The… Continue reading
The Bush-Cheney administration’s Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have collectively set guidelines that recommend—in the event of… Continue reading
Homeland Security Committee members fault Chertoff for delaying legal framework for new office
A controversial plan that would allow domestic law enforcement agencies to use data gathered by US spy satellites still lacks necessary… Continue reading
International visitors flying into New York now face being identified by all ten fingerprints, part of a heightened security system aimed at identifying potential terror suspects and visa fraud, officials said on Tuesday.The upgraded… Continue reading
The Department of Homeland Security is pursuing the introduction of a device known as the Security Bracelet, a wearable tag that would allow authorities to inflict pain compliance on suspects from a distance… Continue reading
Bribery. Drug trafficking. Migrant smuggling.
A Customs and Border Protection officer at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was charged in February with conspiring to assist a New… Continue reading
The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of the project by at least three years and shifting away… Continue reading
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In New York City, the Department of Homeland Security is training New York City firefighters to assist in gathering intelligence information during routine inspections and emergencies.
In November, the Associated Press reported that in New… Continue reading
The superhero power to see through walls will soon be within the grasp of ordinary mortals, thanks to a new hand-held X-ray scanner.
WALLER COUNTY , Texas — Houston police started testing unmanned aircraft and
the event was shrouded in secrecy, but it was captured on tape by Local 2
Investigates.
Neighbors in rural Waller… Continue reading
The announcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security offers a five-year extension to the deadline for states to issue the… Continue reading