Alright, John Morton. Why are you writing sympathetic letters to FAIR, thanking them for fighting AGAINST the TRUST Act?
What… did you think folks wouldn’t find out that you were communicating and collaborating with an organization recognized as a hate group since 2007?
Does this mean that ICE is now guilty (by association) of being a hate group as well?
Read the memo Mr. Morton wrote and find out more about this FAIR/ICE collaboration
A Perfect Example of Right-Wing Stupidity about Border Issues
All the right wing wants to do is to build a big ole’ fence, even if they look like bigoted against LGBT people.
They could make a difference in Homeland Security: there are many very big problems with the way the department is run, but that would mean being patient and thinking through complex problems.
I can’t breathe,” Oquendo told Lill.
Lill headed toward the center of the sorting floor — an area workers call “the belly” — to investigate the odor.
Then he smelled it — a strong chemical stench he couldn’t identify. It was coming from a bag wet with a brown viscous substance. Lill looked in the wet sack and saw a broken package with tubes and wires sticking out. He remembers reading the return address with surprise: Yemen. Four months earlier, two bombs from Yemen had been sent through FedEx and UPS, and the U.S. Postal Service had alerted everyone to be on the lookout for packages coming from the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula.
Fearing the package was a hazard, Lill ordered the 40 postal employees out of the belly and immediately opened the large bay doors to ventilate the facility. Lill then moved the bag to a cart and pushed it outside to the hazardous-materials shed.
After the package was out of the building, Lill radioed his manager to notify her of the suspicious spill. She told him the next on-duty supervisor would finish handling the incident.
Lill’s throat burned, and the gas had given him a headache. He called his mother in Rochester, N.Y.
“I want you know what happened at the Post Office,” Janet Vieau, 64, a real estate agent, remembered him telling her. “It might be on the news.” But the incident never made the news. In fact, the Postal Service did not investigate the suspicious package as a security or health threat and did not report it to the Department of Homeland Security, as is the protocol.
This Video Makes My Stomach Churn
This video of Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas laying in the dirt, screaming for help, while over a dozen Border Patrol agents taser and beat him to death makes my stomach churn. Anastasio was a father of and husband and now his family wants the Department of Justice to release their findings.
How the Political Right Bullied the Department of Homeland Security Into Ignoring the Threat of Right-Wing Extremism
After right-wingers freaked out about a report detailing the rise in right-wing extremism, Homeland Security effectively dismantled a unit tasked with tracking it.
GOP Pushes Bill Giving Czarlike Powers To Department Of Homeland Security To Pollute And Desecrate
Our guest blogger is Jessica Goad, manager of research and outreach, Public Lands Project, Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Forty Republicans in the House of Representatives are promoting a bill that would allow the secretary of homeland security to permanently waive all or part of 36 laws on both public and private lands within 100 miles of any U.S. border or coast. Some of the laws waived by H.R. 1505, the “National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act,” are strictly public health laws, like the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Superfund law. Others are environmental, such as the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. Two-thirds of the American population lives in the areas covered by this bill, because most major cities are along the borders and coasts.
What you didn't know about immigration enforcement that is over a decade old.
UPDATE on this: this checkpoint was yesterday and appears to be over today (saturday). from the LA weekly:
Jorge Mario Cabrera, of CHIRLA, says he has confirmed with witnesses that the checkpoint was actually not run by ICE, but a different law-enforcement agency — wearing…
What most people don’t know that give rise to these operations is that The Homeland Security 287(g) Program came about in the Clinton Administration (when The Justice Dept administered immigration and border protection) and got a big push in 2008 from George XLIII with a momentum that carried through to the Obama Administration.
287(g) effectively deputizes any law enforcement agency to carry out any immigration enforcement matter.
