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The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.
European Parliament lawmakers on Friday demanded that U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ease restrictions for Europeans traveling to the United States, saying plans to impose a new $10 (euro6.73) entry fee are unfair.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano promised immigration enforcement would continue even though her agency is considering new ways to house nonviolent immigrants who have not committed crimes.
U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday stressed the importance of cooperation between federal and local law enforcement agencies to stop terrorism.
The U.S. and Mexico are making headway in the ongoing struggle to curb the flow of illegal drugs, cash and weapons across the border, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.
Facing criticism for her handling of federal stimulus money, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that she would not start any new border construction projects while the department reviewed how projects were selected.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that people should expect "a big influx" of swine flu cases this fall and prepare as best they can.
The Obama administration said Friday that two Democratic senators falsely took credit for steering millions of dollars to projects in their home state, even as officials acknowledged that the Homeland Security secretary met with the lawmakers and discussed financing the projects.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced $30 million in federal grants Tuesday to prevent drug-fueled violence from spilling into the United States from Mexico, heralding it as the latest of several moves in recent months to bolster border enforcement.
Anticipating a new surge of swine flu in the fall, federal health and education officials on Friday urged schools to stay open, but to plan to segregate sick students and staff .
The U.S. government needs to do more to educate and engage the public, so that everyday Americans can be part of a multi-layered strategy to prevent terrorism, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano got a tour Monday of a $4 million Olympics Coordination center that in six months should be a bustling hub of counterterrorism and security operations for the 2010 Winter Games in nearby British Columbia.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is touring the new $4 million Olympics Coordination Center in Bellingham, Washington.
Leading senators from both parties expressed a willingness Wednesday to revamp the nation's stalled plan to secure driver's licenses in an effort to thwart terrorists.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano leaves this weekend for meetings with officials in Europe and Kuwait on counterterrorism issues.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano killed a program begun by the Bush administration that would use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law enforcement.
U.S. Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano wanted to make it clear to Canada on Wednesday that she knows she misspoke when she erroneously said that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists entered the United States through Canada.
The United States and Canada adopted an agreement Tuesday to allow law enforcement authorities of both nations to share personnel and cross the border more easily to fight human, drug and weapon smuggling on waterways that separate them.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told graduating cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy they face an ever-broadening set of threats, including the rising scourge of piracy.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is asserting that the description she initially gave of the border swine-flu monitoring effort no longer applies.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is warning that more severe illnesses and some deaths are likely in the United States from the current swine flu outbreak.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that dealing with the swine flu virus will be "a marathon, not a sprint" and individual citizens have a responsibility to help.
President Barack Obama said Saturday that the U.S. is taking "all necessary precautions" to be prepared if the swine flu develops into "something worse" and spoke to Mexico's president about how to keep the flu strain from spreading.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met with the American Legion on Friday to apologize for a right-wing extremism report written by her agency, and the veterans group walked away from the meeting mollified.
Civil liberties officials at the Homeland Security Department did not agree with some of the language in a controversial report on right-wing extremists, but the agency issued the report anyway.
The LAPD fights crime, not illegal immigrationEarlier this month, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that 11 more locations across the United States have agreed to participate in a controversial law enforcement program known as 287(g).
Arizona Sheriff's Powers Cut. By Miriam Jordan. OCTOBER 7, 2009The Obama administration is curbing the powers of an Arizona sheriff who has led one of the most contentious fights against illegal immigrants.
Is Anyone Who Disagrees with Obama and His Left Wing Agenda a Terrorist?Since when does dis-agreeing with a presidents policies make you a terrorist? If this were a legitimate charge, then all who disagreed with the Bush administration policies would have been terrorists.
U.S. Should Simplify Terror Warning System, Bi-partisan Panel Says A bipartisan task force recommended Tuesday that the Obama administration simplify and reset the U.S. government's iconic color-coded terrorism warning system to the lowest of three new levels, if it keeps using levels at all.
Napolitano: 'Big Influx' of new infections likely - Yahoo! NewsHomeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that people should expect "a big influx" of swine flu cases this fall and prepare as best they can. "The best thing we all can do are the very simple things, the washing of the hands, the coughing into the sleeve," Nap …
Even before former Homeland Security Secretary Tommy Ridge charged that he was pressured into raising the "terror alert" level from "yellow" to "orange" prior to the 2004 elections, there was talk of a need for a new system.
SEIU Blog. Foundation Laid for Needed Immigration Reform. By Joaquin Guerra. 5:59 AM Eastern - August 20, 2009Today, in a meeting to convene a diverse group of labor, advocacy, faith and business leaders, SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina met with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to discuss immigration reform.
U.S. to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants - NYTimes.comThe Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a "truly civil detention system …
Napolitano pick raised funds for terror supporterTEL AVIV – An Arab politician recently appointed to a key position by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano helped raise funds for an Islamic group that has labeled a deadly anti-U.S.
DHS chief accused of using no-fly list for political paybackArizona's state treasurer is not-so-subtly accusing President Obama's Homeland Security chief of abusing America's "no-fly" list to satisfy a personal vendetta against him.
US fears cyber attack the mostMore than anything else, United States fears a cyber attack that might as well bring down the state structures in the world's strongest democracy like a house of sand.
Homeland secretary to kill spy satellitesA government official says Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to kill a controversial program begun by the former Bush administration to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security.
Intel officials scrutinizing threats from the far right just as carefully as those from Islamic extremistsexcerpt: "" After the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leaked a report warning of the threat of right-wing extremists, mainstream conservatives went into a frenzy, demanding that Secretary Janet Napolitano be fired.
Right Wing Extremism: Alive And WellAt this point it's little consolation, but Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano turned out to be more prescient about domestic extremism than many of her critics.
D.C. Shooting: Time To Revisit Criticism Of "Right Wing Extremists Report"excerpt: ""Remember the enormous controversy that erupted in April over a Department of Homeland Security report that assessed the threat of "right wing extremists"? The story provoked days of nonstop cable chatter, forcing DHS chief Janet Napolitano to ultimately apologize.
Liberal Firebrands Don't Make Obama's Supreme Court Short ListIt has been more than 40 years since a Democratic president appointed someone who truly excited the left, but Mr. Obama appears to be following President Bill Clinton's lead in choosing someone with more moderate sensibilities.
The Obama administration isn't just watching rightwing extremists. It's watching us all – and we should all be concernedThe US department of homeland security has once again run afoul of cultural and political conservatives.
U.S. gets tough on Canadian borderThe administration says security should be as stringent as on the Mexican frontier. Border residents and Canadian officials disagree, saying the terrorism threat is exaggerated.
Napolitano and Domestic ExtremismAnother document from our "friends" at the Dept. of Homeland Security has been uncovered.
The Obama Doctrine: The Castrated States of America. by Doug Giles. Saturday, May 02, 2009In just 100 days Obama has moved us from a war footing to a wuss footing. Yes sir, from a foreign policy/national defense standpoint, Barack is making Jimmy Carter look like a full-on badass.
Joe Biden Says Avoid Confined Public Places...So How Does He Get Home?Joe Biden's infamous swine flu warning a couple of days ago is pretty much common knowledge now...but in case you missed it, Jabbering Joe told the American Public to avoid Airplanes, Subways and any other confined spaces...
Does anyone besides myself see some glaring inconsistencies with this whole Swine Flu pandemic? I mean, I'm not even sure what to call it today because so many "experts" have made so many inconsistent "factual" statements that I've been turned around in so many circles I don't k …
Citizen Writes: Jerry Moran Should Publicly ApologizeRep. Jerry Moran (Kansas) should retract his statement and apologize publicly for misrepresenting the facts, inadvertently or otherwise.
Former U.S. spy linked 9/11 terrorists to CanadaThere has been a lot of huffing and puffing in the media and in Ottawa and Washington this week about the "9 11 myth." The myth born in the hours after the terrorist attacks on the entrepreneurial political and military epicentres of the United States is that several of the 19 …
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