Tag: Homeland Security

UCLA’s undergraduate student government passed a resolution unanimously last week to criticize any use of the term “illegal immigrant” to describe illegal immigrants. Many students are upset with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, whom they feel is too

A report from the Mexican newspaper El Universal states that the number of asylum claims by Mexican nationals in fiscal year 2013 so far has jumped 260% over the entire year of 2012. This provides another confirmation of the story

More evidence is piling up against the FBI when it comes to Nidal Hasan, the Army Major convicted for the mass killing of over a dozen people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.  First, the New York Times published two

Outgoing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pleaded with Congress to pass amnesty legislation, or “comprehensive immigration reform,” in her farewell speech on Tuesday. Napolitano defended her use of “prosecutorial discretion” to administratively grant amnesty to millions of illegal

The House Oversight Committee has sent a letter to soon-to-be-retired Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and embattled Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the dramatic upswing in asylum requests by those crossing the border. Over the past few months, asylum requests

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) has sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano that reveals the Obama administration policy of asylum overwhelms the ability to enforce laws. This comes in the wake of a Breitbart News story about

Sarah Palin said the Department of Homeland Security official reportedly allowed to run a website obsessed with a potential race war is indicative of incompetence in the Obama administration.  “This one is un-flippin’-believable!,” Palin said on Fox News’ On The

(AP) DHS employee behind racist website on paid leaveBy ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Homeland Security Department says an employee who runs a racist website predicting and advocating a race war has been put on paid administrative leave. An acquisitions officer

If you thought that it was frightening enough that the federal government was spying on you and had access to your personal information, get ready: Planned Parenthood is about to obtain access to your Social Security number, tax form, bank

In a shockingly short period of time, the American people have learned about four massive failures in our government’s ability to treat a red flag like a red flag and screen out troubled individuals before they are given extraordinary access

On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security conceded that requests for asylum in the United States along the border between the United States and Mexico have more than doubled over the last three years.  The federal government released the numbers

A legendary labor leader who once called illegal immigrants “wetbacks” has now taken the default position of many in the comprehensive immigration reform movement: namely, that enforcement of existing immigration laws through deportation should be halted.  At the union-sponsored rally

According to the New York Times, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano “popped in” to a 2011 meeting between Terry McAuliffe, at the time chairman of GreenTech Automotive, and Alejandro Mayorkas, director of the Department of Homeland

The process for people attempting to enter the country illegally through the Mexican border has often been characterized as grueling, dangerous and even potentially deadly; a trek across smoldering hot deserts led by ruthless ‘coyotes’ who profit from human suffering. 

Four months after Terry McAuliffe became chairman of GreenTech Automotive in March 2010, a decision by the California regional director of the Department of Homeland Security’s US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) found that the manner the firm was raising

Based upon published reports, GreenTech Automotive, the company the Democratic Party of Virginia’s gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe served as chairman from 2010 to 2012, received at least $37.5 million in cash investments before McAuliffe resigned as chairman in December 2012.

In response to a question at a town hall event this week, Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) suggested that a majority of House Republicans support granting amnesty through a GOP version of the DREAM Act to young illegal aliens who were

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made an unusual move by granting temporary asylum to several Mexican immigrants, including a handful of those who are illegally in the United States, after they crossed the border in a pro-amnesty protest in

On Saturday, as embassies around the globe remained closed due to terror threat, and while his national security team met for emergency session, President Obama golfed for his birthday. He headed over early to Andrews Air Force Base in order

An April 2013 email from a career Department of Homeland Security official released on Friday by the office of Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) stated that the Department of Homeland Security “absolutely gave special treatment” to green card visa applications filed by

(AP) Documents: SEC probing McAuliffe former e-car firmBy BOB LEWISAP Political WriterRICHMOND, Va.The electric-car company headed until last fall by Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and a sister company led by the brother of former Secretary of State Hillary

The top political columnist at a major Virginia newspaper not known to favor conservative candidates wrote on Thursday that “Fast Terry,” the new documentary film from Citizens United that portrays Clinton pal and former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe

Eliot Spitzer, candidate for New York City’s comptroller seat, is currently the odds on favorite to win the primary and perhaps run away with the general election. It’s quite a turnaround for the former governor of New York, who was forced