Posts Tagged ‘homeland security’
Reality tv is turning into pr for the United States Department of Homeland Security with their own reality show on ABC.
The New Head of Homeland Security and Her Friends in Ugly Places
8:33 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|Politics · 1 Comment
24 Nov 2008
President-elect Obama has made another cabinet pick, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to head the always troubled Department of Homeland Security. The decision is being praised left and right because of her experience inside the border state and a “practical” attitude. And while I suppose being practical might be useful in a national government post, it doesn’t bode well for the millions of immigrants hoping that the change line Obama has been feeding people includes them and their families.
Propsed troop deployment
2:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · Comments Off
21 Nov 2008
From the AP comes the following news about the plans that prospective Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano, plans to make should she get the job:
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, President-elect Barack Obama’s reported primary choice for Homeland Security secretary, says she still thinks National Guard troops should be sent back to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Napolitano says “as governor of Arizona” that’s something she has advocated with other border state governors and still believes.
Guard troops were deployed for two years to support the Border Patrol as it hired more agents, but the troops left in July.
Napolitano wouldn’t say on Friday if she’s been offered the Homeland Security post. It includes overseeing the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
And she won’t say whether she’ll seek to redeploy Guard troops to the border if she becomes Homeland Security secretary.
As Man_Eegee says, this isn’t change and it’s nothing I can believe in.
Head for the Border, But Leave Your Laptop at Home
8:36 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Tech|travel · 2 Comments
1 Aug 2008
If you are entering the U.S., Department of Homeland Security wants your laptop, and maybe your cellphone, iPods, pager, beepers, video and audio tapes. and “all papers and other written documentation,” including books, pamphlets and “written materials commonly referred to as ‘pocket trash’ or ‘pocket litter.”.
According to an article in the Washington Post, there has been a policy in place for some time that authorizes Homeland security to:
take a traveler’s laptop computer 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 Homeland Security recently disclosed.Also, officials may share copies of the laptop’s contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16…
ACLU Sues Homeland Security Over Information Regarding Immigrant Detainees and Deaths
7:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · Comments Off
29 Jun 2008Last week the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for refusing to
turn over public documents related to the deaths of dozens of immigrant
detainees. The lawsuit requests that the court order DHS to carry out a reasonable records search and speed up the processing of documents. The ACLU’s legal action arises from alleged government abuses connected to the deaths of immigrants held in various detention facilities in the United States. The deaths were reportedly due to medical neglect.
Also named in the lawsuit were the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) agency and the DHS Office of the Inspector General.
Machine Guns On NYC Subways
8:31 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|New York City · 1 Comment
25 Apr 2008
I ride the NYC subway system nearly everyday with children. So why do I not feel safer with the announcement that the New York City Police Department will be patrolling the major subway stations with Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs? The program is called Operation Torch and this new anti-terror effort is thanks to a 50 percent increase in a Homeland Security grant. The program’s complete cost? $151 million.
I feel safer already.
Via / CBS News (local tv)
Immigration lends database to local police
1:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Immigration · 1 Comment
15 Nov 2006
The Department of Homeland Security is supplying some local police forces in California with access to a database of fingerprints of immigrants who have been deported back to their countries of origin, in an effort to identify whether individuals are undocumented when they are detained by authorities:
The U.S. government intends to make information available to all local law enforcement agencies in the nation within two years to help catch criminal immigrants, people with ties to terrorist groups, and others who pose a threat.“We need more people on the ground with information who can act,” said Robert Mocny, acting director of the Home Security visitor-technology program.
Meanwhile, immigrants rights groups like MALDEF worry that this initiative may lead to law enforcement detaining people just to check their legal status.
In Los Angeles County, Bryant said there is no indication officers have arrested people just to check their immigration status. “We’ve got better things to do,” he said.
I can’t help but be reminded of this Houston proposal.
Via / Appeal-Democrat.com
Detention centers by any other name
11:39 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Politics · Comments Off
7 Feb 2006
And a familiar name to those sensitive to topics such as “reconstruction” in Iraq and botched hurricane relief, among other things. I mean if you are going to be detained in a modern-day Angel Island, it might as well be a name you know and distrust: Halliburton The guys who brought us “Camp Delta” at Guantanamo.
The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.
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