Category Archives: Homeland Security

More illegal immigrants from India crossing border

By doris | Published: July 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS FRESNOS, Texas — Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms. The Indians, whose hiding space was furnished only [...]

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U.S. official says pre-infected computer tech entering country

By doris | Published: July 8, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com Confirming years of warnings from government and private security experts, a top Homeland Security official has acknowledged that computer hardware and software is already being imported to the United States preloaded with spyware and security-sabotaging components. The remarks by Greg Schaffer, the Department of Homeland Security’s acting deputy undersecretary for national [...]

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New terrorism alert system will offer specific warnings

By doris | Published: April 20, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com New York (CNN) — A new terrorism warning system will provide the public with information on specific threats, replacing the color-coded alerts put in place after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday. In announcing the new system at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, commonly known [...]

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After 9/11, U.S. gave more visas to Saudi students

By doris | Published: February 24, 2011

Full Story at openchannel.msnbc.msn.com Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, the Saudi student arrested Thursday on charges that he planned to build bombs for terror attacks inside the United States, was granted a U.S. student visa after qualifying for a generous scholarship sponsored by Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, according to the indictment against him. Aldawsari was one of [...]

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ICE agent killed, another injured in Mexico shooting

By doris | Published: February 15, 2011

Full Story at news.blogs.CNN.com [Updated at 8:14 p.m.] One of two American immigration and customs officers who were shot in Mexico on Tuesday has died, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. The two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents were shot while driving between Monterrey and Mexico City on Tuesday afternoon by unidentified [...]

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Fiery package in DC triggers memories of anthrax

By doris | Published: January 8, 2011

Full Story atmsnbc.com WASHINGTON — Postal workers who returned to work Saturday said a package that ignited at a government mail facility conjured painful memories of the anthrax attacks that killed two of their colleagues in 2001. The fiery package found Friday, which was addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, followed two packages that [...]

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Homeland Security teams up with Walmart for safety

By doris | Published: December 7, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Walmart will join the Department of Homeland Security in a program called “If You See Something, Say Something” which encourages the American public to take an active role in ensuring the safety and security of the nation, DHS said Monday. “Homeland security starts with hometown security, and each of [...]

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Feds: Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Ore.

By doris | Published: November 27, 2010

Full Story at News.Yahoo.com PORTLAND, Ore. – Undercover agents in a sting operation stopped a Somali-born teenager from blowing up a van full of explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, federal authorities said. The bomb was a dud supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities [...]

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US spy spending revealed for first time, tops $80 billion

By doris | Published: October 29, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The United States spent $80 billion on spy activities in 2010, the first time the government has officially announced the total tab for intelligence spending. The amount included $53.1 billion on non-military intelligence programs, a 6 percent boost from the previous year, according to a statement released Thursday [...]

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Clinton: U.S. can do more to help Mexico fight drug cartels

By doris | Published: October 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. can do more to help Mexico battle drug cartels that have started operating more like terrorists and insurgent groups. “It is one of my highest priorities,” Clinton said Friday during a speech in San Francisco at the nonpartisan Commonwealth Club. “This [...]

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U.S. to issue travel alert for Americans in Europe

By doris | Published: October 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department on Sunday will issue a travel “alert” urging American citizens to be vigilant as they travel in Europe, government officials told NBC News on Saturday. The alert is due to new al-Qaida threats although officials have not identified specific targets that terrorists might be considering, [...]

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Russian company seeks to buy U.S. uranium mining operations

By doris | Published: September 25, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — A Russian company is seeking to buy a controlling interest in one of the largest uranium extraction operations in the United States — a sale that requires U.S. government review because of possible national security implications. Uranium One USA, now a subsidiary of a Canadian company, operates a [...]

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Nine years after 9/11, a photo provides some peace

By doris | Published: September 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Judson Box has never known exactly how his son, Gary, died on September 11, 2001. But an unexpected find nine years later has given him a glimpse into his son’s final hours. Gary, then 35, had been working as a firefighter in Brooklyn for roughly five years [...]

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N.J. man held at JFK: I’ll outdo Fort Hood killer

By doris | Published: June 8, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. – The young men’s intentions were sinister, according to officials: to head to Somalia to seek terror training from al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists and unleash attacks against fellow Americans. But their preparations apparently were unsophisticated.

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NBC: Man held in Montreal is terror suspect

By doris | Published: June 1, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The man removed from an Aeromexico flight bound for Mexico City Sunday was the subject of a terror warning issued for the U.S.-Mexico border last week, senior U.S. counterterrorism officials told NBC News on Monday. Homeland Security had asked law enforcement in Houston to be on the lookout for [...]

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Ariz. lawmakers OK sweeping immigration bill

By doris | Published: April 20, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com PHOENIX – Arizona lawmakers approved a sweeping immigration bill Monday intended to ramp up law enforcement efforts even as critics complained it could lead to racial profiling and other abuse. The state Senate voted 17-11 nearly along party lines to send the bill to Gov. Jan Brewer, who has not taken [...]

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Clinton draws parallels between ‘upheaval’ of 1995, today

By doris | Published: April 18, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Former President Clinton said he sees parallels in the mood of the country now and on April 19, 1995, when the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people while he was in the White House. “There’s the same kind of economic and social upheaval now,” [...]

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Mexican violence scaring off American tourists

By doris | Published: March 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Tijuana, Mexico (CNN) — On Tijuana’s Avenue de la Revolucion, street vendor and sidewalk philosopher Juan Ramon Rocha leaned on his coin and jewelry cart and waited. But the tourists from across the border never rushed into the streets of T.J., as it’s often called. Rocha made one sale, to a [...]

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U.S. works to expedite adoptions of Haitian children

By doris | Published: January 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The U.S. government announced Monday that it has eased the requirements for orphaned children from Haiti to enter the United States on a temporary basis. The move is being made to ensure they get needed care after last week’s earthquake in Haiti, said Department of Homeland Security Secretary [...]

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Having lost her deputies, judge packs a gun

By doris | Published: January 11, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BOSTON – On many days, the metal detectors sit silent at the busiest courthouse in Maine. People arriving for everything from child custody hearings to murder trials walk through the machines without a beep. The detectors are off because the court can’t pay for officers to run them. With the recession [...]

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