The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the United States federal government with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the U.S. from terrorist attacks and responding to natural disasters.
Whereas the Department of Defense is charged with military actions abroad, the Department of Homeland Security works in the civilian sphere to protect the United States within, at, and outside its borders. Its stated goal is to prepare for, prevent, and respond to domestic emergencies, particularly terrorism. On March 1, 2003, DHS absorbed the Immigration and Naturalization Service and assumed its duties. In doing so, it divided the enforcement and services functions into two separate and new agencies: Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services. Additionally, the border enforcement functions of the INS, the U.S. Customs Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service were consolidated into a new agency under DHS: U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The Federal Protective Service falls under Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
With more than 200,000 employees, DHS is the third largest Cabinet department, after the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Homeland security policy is coordinated at the White House by the Homeland Security Council. Other agencies with significant homeland security responsibilities include the Departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy.
The creation of DHS constituted the biggest government reorganization in American history, and the most substantial reorganization of federal agencies since the National Security Act of 1947, which placed the different military departments under a secretary of defense and created the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency. DHS also constitutes the most diverse merger of federal functions and responsibilities, incorporating 22 government agencies into a single organization.
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Feature Article Just answer the question & you'll be on your way... Terry Bressi
As the video and transcript make perfectly clear, the driver was courteous and answered all immigration-related questions directed to him. Nonetheless, the federal Homeland Security agent attempted to gain access to the interior of the vehicle for a
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News Obama Pledges Another $215 Million For Virtual Strip Search Scanners
2-2-10
infowars.com/
The $215 million proposal to acquire 500 scanners next year, combined with the 450 to be bought this year, marks the largest addition of airport-security equipment since immediately after the 9/11 attacks.
News UK: Air passengers who refuse body scan to be barred from flights
2-2-10
DailyMail.co.uk/news/
Air passengers who refuse to submit to controversial full body scans will be barred from boarding their flights
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News NY's MTA electronic security plan late, lacks funds
01-26-2010
Reuters
The cost of an electronic security program at NY's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has ballooned but a severe shortfall in the money needed means it may never be completed. The cost has risen to $833 million from $591 million but only $59 milli
News Jet diverts to Philly over Jewish teen passenger's prayer
01-22-2010
AP
A Jewish teenager trying to pray on a NY-to-Kentucky flight caused a scare when he pulled out a set of small boxes containing holy scrolls, leading the captain to divert the flight to Philadelphia, where he was greeted by police, bomb-sniffing dogs a
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News USA Less Free
01-22-2-10
arclein
The U.S. lost ground on many fronts. Scores declined in seven of the 10 categories of economic freedom. Losses were particularly significant in the areas of financial and monetary freedom and property rights. Driving it all were the federal governmen
News U.S. counterterror agency lacks "Google-like" search
01-21-2010
Reuters
A senior counterterrorism official said his agency lacks "Google-like" search capability that could have identified the suspect in the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing. [Send more money and we will study how to add it.]
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News FBI broke law for years in phone record searches
01-18-2010
Washington Post
The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 US telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or persuading phone companies to provide records. Officials issued approvals after the fact to justify th
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News Immigration, United States Citizens, and Freedom
01-18-2010
FR33 Agents
Can any stance that is allegedly pro-freedom and rights for United States citizens while simultaneously advocating government border control possibly be internally consistent? We can begin to investigate that question by looking at what things are a
News Michael Chertoff's Pushing "Full-Body Scanners", Has a Conflict of Interest... $$$$$$$
01-15-2010
www.opednews.com
What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. The relationship drew attention after Chertoff disclosed it on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a
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News TSA lies again about what the strip-search machines see
01-14-2010
Papers Please
Already this week the TSA was caught in a lie about what it likes to call whole body imaging (virtual strip search) machines, when the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) obtained documents showing that, despite TSA claims that this state-o
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News TSA: Security fails to spot gun at Mont. airport
01-14-2010
AP
Officials say security screeners at a Bozeman-area airport failed to spot a gun in a passenger's luggage last month, but the man turned himself in when he realized his error.
The man became aware he had the firearm in his carryon luggage as he was b
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News Lessons from the case of the man who set his underpants on fire
01-09-2010
Papers Please
Weve been having a hard time keeping up with events over the last few weeks. Every time we think the keystone cops from the Department of Homeland Security cant come up with anything dumber to do, they prove us wrong. At this point were not sure w
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News Fla. cops: Man threatening Jews taken off flight
01-07-2010
AP
An airline passenger in Miami proclaimed "I want to kill all the Jews" before police forced him off a Detroit-bound plane. Asad was charged with threats against a public servant, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence.
News Bomb suspect had been flagged for check at landing
01-07-2010
AP
[that's nice] Homeland Security officials say they had flagged the suspect in the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt as someone who should go through additional security when he landed in the United States.
News Passenger says honey caused California airport scare
01-05-2010
Reuters
A passenger whose bag tested positive for explosives at a California airport prompting authorities to shut down the facility and divert flights, said he was carrying only bottled honey. Hours later he was still being held for questioning, and investi
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News Screening problem makes plane return to St. Louis
01-03-2010
AP
A company official says a United Airlines flight headed to Chicago had to return to St. Louis because they had a problem with its computers, and manually checked in passengers. The computers started working after the flight took off and thats when t
News TSA: Newark terminal locked down
01-03-2009
CNN
I would respond the same...
I was walking up to the terminal checkpoint
when
The government(TSA) sounded like a
Capitol One Credit Card Commercial...
What's in your Underwear?
I would look for the closest exit also...
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G Money
News Ron Paul suggests agenda to expand terror war, attack American liberty
12-30-2009
He said that terrorist-style tactics carried out against the United States and U.S. interests are a response to occupation of Arab lands. The attempted attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, he said, was a result of "either awful stupidity or there
News Is aviation security mostly for show?
12-30-2009
CNN
"Security theater" refers to security measures that make people feel more secure without doing anything to actually improve their security.
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News Key security agencies lack permanent leaders
12-29-2009
AP
2 federal agencies charged with keeping potential terrorists off airplanes and out of the country have been without their top leaders for nearly a year. It took the Obama administration more than 8 months to nominate anyone to lead the Transportation
News Flight 253 Bomb Excuse
12-28-2009
Buffalohair Gazette International
As the Obama administration showboats their concerns for air safety while offering even more restrictions on Americans, the truth begins to show its ugly head. Eye witness Kurt Haskell of New Port Michigan told another story of blatant disregard for
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Carlos Guevara
News No danger on Sunday flight _ just an ill passenger
12-27-2009
AP
Armed officers on Sunday rushed aboard the same Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day, but the perceived threat wasn't much of a danger - just an ill traveler who spent too much time in the bathroom.
News 2 'Suspicious' Men Aboard Flight Detained in Phoenix
12-27-2009
FOX News
Tensions are running high after Friday's attempted terror attack aboard an airplane, and those fears sparked a security scare at Sky Harbor Airport Saturday night -- and 2 men had to be pulled off a plane who were Middle Eastern and acting suspicious
News Another border officer in child porn case
12-26-2009
Times Herald
A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer stationed at the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on a charge of receiving child pornography. The indictment charges that Eric Higgins, 31, received pornographic ima
Feature Article Border Patrol Agents Illegally Seize & Search Student's Car in Southern Arizona Terry Bressi
Since agents had neither probable cause nor consent in this case, the search of Mz. Cooper and her vehicle were illegal. Additionally, its unlikely the stop itself was legal since conducting a lawful u-turn along a public highway does not constitute
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Feature Article Award Winning Sci-Fi Writer Physically Assaulted By DHS Agents At U.S. Border Terry Bressi
My guess is that the federal agents involved in the beat-down know that whatever Mr. Watts did, it didn't rise to the level of assault. They probably also know that if they tried to charge him with assault themselves, the federal prosecutor would eit
News TSA discloses discriminatory and improperly withheld procedures
12-12-2009
Papers Please
The procedures are blatantly discriminatory and in apparent violation of Federal law, the U.S. Constitution, and Article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a treaty ratified by and binding on the USA. One of the
News Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border
12-11-2009
Boing Boing
"But now Peter faces a felony rap for "assaulting a federal officer" (Peter and the witness in the car say he didn't do a thing, and I believe them). Defending this charge will cost a fortune, and an inadequate defense could cost Peter his home, his"
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Headlines: Just answer the question & you'll be on your way... -- Obama Pledges Another $215 Million For Virtual Strip Search Scanners -- UK: Air passengers who refuse body scan to be barred from flights -- NY's MTA electronic security plan late, lacks funds -- Jet diverts to Philly over Jewish teen passenger's prayer -- USA Less Free -- U.S. counterterror agency lacks "Google-like" search -- FBI broke law for years in phone record searches -- Immigration, United States Citizens, and Freedom -- Michael Chertoff's Pushing "Full-Body Scanners", Has a Conflict of Interest... $$$$$$$ -- TSA lies again about what the strip-search machines see -- TSA: Security fails to spot gun at Mont. airport -- Lessons from the case of the man who set his underpants on fire -- Fla. cops: Man threatening Jews taken off flight -- Bomb suspect had been flagged for check at landing -- Passenger says honey caused California airport scare -- Screening problem makes plane return to St. Louis -- TSA: Newark terminal locked down -- Ron Paul suggests agenda to expand terror war, attack American liberty -- Is aviation security mostly for show? -- Key security agencies lack permanent leaders -- Jack Bauer interrogates Santa -- Flight 253 Bomb Excuse -- No danger on Sunday flight _ just an ill passenger -- 2 'Suspicious' Men Aboard Flight Detained in Phoenix -- Another border officer in child porn case -- Border Patrol Agents Illegally Seize & Search Student's Car in Southern Arizona -- Award Winning Sci-Fi Writer Physically Assaulted By DHS Agents At U.S. Border -- TSA discloses discriminatory and improperly withheld procedures -- Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border --
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