Two foreign nationals allegedly engaged in smuggling illegal immigrants to the U.S. on commercial flights are in custody after an undercover sting in New Jersey, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson stated that he hopes there isn’t a war on police or a general anti-police sentiment but the number of police killed is “really unfortunate. And I hope we turn that tide” in an interview
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing an expansion to a program that allows foreign students with science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) degrees to work in the U.S.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign is furious with 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump over Trump’s comments that the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened on Bush’s brother former President George W. Bush’s watch. But a review of the basic facts of the situation—and Jeb Bush’s own writings— reveals that even the Bushes admit that “leaky” immigration enforcement was a major driving factor in leading to the terrorist attacks.
An Afghan military officer, who deserted last month while participating in a U.S.-based training program, was apprehended by federal authorities on an Amtrak train en route to Washington state, according to U.S. Border Patrol.
Street artists hired to give authenticity to a Berlin set on Showtime’s Homeland trolled the show by sneaking in Arabic graffiti calling the show “racist,” and even wrote Black Lives Matter.”
Republican lawmakers are expressing concern about the Obama administration’s plans to release some 2,000 federally jailed criminal aliens scheduled for deportation as part of the government’s new sentencing rules for drug convictions.
“As a sovereign nation we must protect our borders, but building a wall across the entire southwest border is not the answer,” DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said as the audience applauded. Johnson ridiculed the idea that an illegal immigrant from South America who traveled through Mexico would be deterred by a wall.
Obama’s Deputies Invite 1,500 Foreigners With Known Terror Links Into U.S.
The Office of Personnel Management made 2015’s government-wide employee engagement index scores and the global satisfaction index scores public Tuesday, revealing that DHS ranked dead last in both employee engagement and job satisfaction among large agencies. While the federal government as a whole experienced a one percent increase in employee engagement to 64 percent from 63 percent last year, DHS actually lost a percentage point in engagement, falling to 53 percent
The Obama administration is launching a pilot program to provide illegal immigrant families released in the U.S. with social workers who could help them access housing, education, medical services and legal assistance. It’s billed as a way to ensure released illegal immigrant families appear for their immigration court dates.
Jeh Johnson laid into sanctuary city policies that actively hinder the efforts of immigration officials to enforce U.S. law in the wake of the July shooting death of Kate Steinle in San Francisco.
The New York Army National Guard is sending one of its two UH-72 Lakota light utility helicopters and a four-man crew to the Arizona-Mexico border on Wednesday to assist with illegal activity and illegal immigration. The helicopter and its crew is being deployed to Marana, Arizona.
New details are coming out regarding a terrorist attack planned against Pope Francis during his U.S. visit next week, after a lawmaker revealed on Sunday that an attempt had been derailed by Federal agents.
A star-studded cast of celebrities is slated to perform for Pope Francis during his upcoming visit to the United States. Notables like Aretha Franklin, The Fray, Sister Sledge, Andrea Bocelli, Juanes, and the Philadelphia Orchestra are scheduled to grace the stage in preparation for the Pontiff’s meeting with the people.
The FBI is investigating an Ohio State University professor who disappeared and may have given defense secrets to the Chinese government.
Arizona’s top Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor, whose discrimination case against the Department of Homeland Security revealed internal unrest in the face of the Obama administration’s diluted immigration enforcement efforts, has settled for nearly $400,000, according to the New York Times.
A human trafficking ring in Houston has been busted-up by local authorities after concerned relatives called them when coyotes refused to release a illegal immigrant family member unless they paid the coyotes extra money. The smugglers have been forcing the men to work and would send the money earned back to a criminal organization in Mexico.
The Obama Administration let Chinese hackers walk away with a vast trove of data on government employees and contractors earlier this year, including the entire database of people who applied for security clearances. he last thing we need is for bureaucrats, officials, and military members in sensitive positions to be setting themselves up for manipulation by foreign agents by diddling around on adultery websites such as Ashley Madison.
Ten illegal immigrants were rescued and captured in New Braunfels, Texas, Tuesday morning, when police found them on a north-bound Union Pacific freight train. New Braunfels is located almost 200 miles away from the Texas/Mexico border.
A federal judge in Phoenix ruled to allow attorneys representing immigrant rights groups to inspect four immigrant detention facilities in Arizona where the attorneys feel immigrants were held under “inhumane and punitive” conditions on August 14. The order comes following an enormous wave of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who crossed the southwest border in the summer of 2014.
Actress Claire Danes has long been an advocate for gender equality in Hollywood, and the 36-year-old starlet says being a woman in her line of work is challenging.
An elderly woman and her two middle-aged sons were found hammered to death with their throats slit in their Pensacola, Florida, home last Friday in what may have been a ritualistic killing associated with witchcraft.
The Department of Homeland Security is instituting new security requirements for those countries in the Visa Waiver Program — or countries whose nationals do not need visas for short visits to the U.S. — due to the threats posed by foreign fighters, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson announced Thursday.
Al-Qaeda has been replaced by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) as the number one threat to the U.S. homeland, argue members of President Obama’s top intelligence, counterterrorism, and law enforcement team, who focus on national threats, reports The News York Times (NYT).
Texas Sheriffs, the Lieutenant Governor, and experts in immigration related issues met at the State Capitol on Wednesday to discuss the federal government’s creation of a sanctuary state for criminal aliens through its Priority Enforcement Program (PEP).
The Denver division of the FBI has issued an alert to law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Wyoming, reporting multiple complaints about “Middle Eastern men” keeping military families under surveillance, and in at least one case approaching a military wife for a direct confrontation.
The Obama administration is extending the availability of Temporary Protected Status for current TPS beneficiaries from Somalia for another 18 months, through March 17, 2017.
Police in California say they rescued a woman from Nicaragua who was allegedly tricked into illegally entering the US only to be imprisoned in a closet and sexually abused for a year.
Speaking on Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” regarding the shooting in Chattanooga, TN, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) said that the United States needs a national strategy to “deal with the home-grown terrorist threat.”
“Cities that refuse to comply with immigration officials and release dangerous criminals back into our communities put innocent American lives at risk,” Rep. Kevin Yoder says. “If these cities wish to continue to subvert the law they will do so without the support of American taxpayers. The heartbreaking tragedy in San Francisco was preventable and we must do everything we can to ensure that it never happens again,” he added.
WASHINGTON DC—Law enforcement officials confirmed at a press conference on Thursday morning that no evidence of a shooter has been found at the DC Navy Yard. The Navy Yard remained on lockdown during the press conference.
Federal and state law enforcement entities are enhancing security measures and taking action to prevent terrorist attacks on Fourth of July.
Americans were once again given a stern and ominous warning to stay “vigilant” to the threat of terrorist attacks leading up to July Fourth festivities. This warning comes after the recent radical Islamic terrorist attacks overseas in Kuwait, France, and Tunisia were carried out, as well as continued Islamist threats against the U.S.
FireEye, a private sector cybersecurity firm, told media that they believe they have discovered who was behind the massive hack on the federal Office of Personnel Management in which millions of federal employees’s data was stolen.
As the nation continues to demand answers over the OPM data breach which potentially compromised the personal information of millions of government employees, federal agents and officers are barely being notified of a separate – but apparently related – attack at a government contractor that took place about nine months ago.
“TSA’s recent 96 percent failure rate was not the result of sophisticated, so-called ‘Red Teams.’ The administration has an obligation to responsibly declassify the inspector general’s investigation and to publicly release everything else it knows about TSA’s failures,” Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska says.
The news about the massive data breach of the Office of Personnel Management, and other federal agencies, by Chinese hackers just keeps getting worse. Estimates of the scope of the breach have increased since the initial reports on Friday, while the ability of the attackers to bypass state-of-the-art defensive software is frightening. Even so, some experts are saying the damage could have been contained if the government had taken better precautions to protect the pilfered data.
Two members of the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee arrived in Laredo on Sunday for a briefing about a Customs and Border Protection helicopter that made an emergency landing after taking fire from the Mexican side of the border. They will be meeting on Sunday and Monday with officials from the Air Branch and Marine Branch Sector Headquarters.
As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expands the centers to make space for the next wave of arrivals, the agency faces legal and political challenges that could shut them down. And a new flow of migrants raises questions as to whether the strategy has deterred migration at all.
