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Since 1980, the Refugee Act has offered asylum to people who flee to the United States to escape persecution in their homeland. In 1996, ho...
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U.S. SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MEETS TO BE BRIEFED ON THE DUBAI PORTS WORLD DEAL
FEBRUARY 27, 2006
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Event to feature Secretary Janet Napolitano and co-chairs Michael Chertoff and Jane Harman
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute's Homeland Security Program announces the launch of the "Aspen Homeland Security Group" this Thursday, September 15, 2011, from 12:00-1:30 p.m. at our One Dupont Circle offices in Washington, DC. The event will feature Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Aspen Homeland Security Group co-chairs, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Director, President, and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and former Congresswoman Jane Harman, in a conversation moderated by The Washington Post's David Ignatius. Also attending the event and participating in the discussion will be va...
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There has been considerable discussion since September 11 of the enormous resource that local police potentially represent in the fight against terrorism. This article identifies limits to by analyzing a case study of Dearborn, Michigan. Partly because Dearborn is home to one of the largest concentrations of Arabs in the United States, its experience with homeland security highlights two kinds of burdens that cities incur when they engage in proactive surveillance to identify potential terrorists: damage to their reputation (since police surveillance implies that its objects are not trustworthy) and damage to police legitimacy (since new surveillance may undermine trust between police and the community). Because the benefits of efforts to identify ter...
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The (HSAC) will meet in person and members of the public may participate by conference call on May 24, 2012. The meeting will be partially closed to the public.
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OGALLALA, Neb. - On the edge of the Nebraska sand hills is Lake McConaughy, a 22-mile-long reservoir that in summer becomes a magnet for Winnebagos, fishermen and kite sailors. But officials here in Keith County, population 8,370, have long imagined a different scenario: an al-Qaida sleeper cell hitching explosives onto a water skiing boat and plowing into the dam at the head of the lake.
The federal Department of Homeland Security a few years ago gave the county $42,000 to buy state-of-the-art dive gear, including full- face masks, underwater lights and radios, and a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar capable of mapping wide areas of the lake floor. Cherry County, Neb., population 6,148, got thousands of federal dollars for cattle nose leads, halters and electric prods in case terrorists...
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In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of Homeland Security proposes to update and reissue Department of Homeland Security system of records titled, ``Department of Homeland Security/ U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services-015 Electronic Immigration System-2 Account and Case Management System of Records.'' This system of records will allow the Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to collect and maintain records on an individual after he or she submits a benefit request and/or updates account information to create or update U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Electronic Immigration System accounts; gather any missing information; manage workflow; assist U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in making a benefit determin...