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... and corrupt government officials to get access to such personal information as a home address, age, and Social Security number. The regulations endanger the privacy of domestic violence survivors' personal information, exposing them to stalkers in all ... to speak during the rushed passage of REAL ID. We are speaking now and we are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security reject this illegal national identification system. Respectfully submitted, Tune in to the hearing right now at http:// ...

... protect the country after the 2001 terrorist attacks, have admitted that its computer security system is not so secure after all. In the last two years alone, more than 800 ... security data. Among the many duties of the 180,000-member Department of Homeland Security is detecting and fighting cyber threats and the agency gets major federal funding to do it. In fact, last year its National Cyber Security Division received an extra $25 million-in addition to its annual budget of $79 million--to beef ...

... , recruitment or just all-purpose tracking. From 2001 to 2006, in an operation code-named Project Strike Back, the Education Department teamed up with the FBI to scour the records of the 14 million students who applied for federal financial aid each year. The ... -born students; keep the undocumented out. Under the auspices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been keeping close tabs on foreign students and their dependents through the Student ...

... U.S. government consolidated Immigration and Naturalization Services (now known as Citizenship and Immigration Services) with the Department of Homeland Security. As a result of the merger between these two agencies, there has been great emphasis on " ... now a greater focus on regulating the entry and conduct of undocumented illegal immigrants through the primary investigative department, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Despite the economic and social reliance on undocumented laborers, ...

... Officer. Testifying alongside Charbo are two government auditors who have been sorting through the hundreds of systems and security incidents at the sprawling department. Expect harsh words from the Committee's chair Bennie Thompson who is slated to pound DHS for hypocrisy: with questions like "How can the Department of Homeland Security be a real advocate for sound cybersecurity practices without following some of its own advice?" and "How can we ask the ...

Source: Crime and Justice News, January 16, 2008. "Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says that if critics don't like what his department is doing, they should come up with better ideas, says National Public Radio in the last ... nuclear nonproliferation, which might be more effective. Stephen Flynn with the Council on Foreign Relations also thinks the department's counterterrorism focus is wrong. He says that the agency has squandered the most useful weapon it has ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's director, Janet Napolitano, recently announced that under the Obama Administration, the Homeland Security is shifting its focus from arresting and prosecuting illegal workers to raid, arresting, and prosecuting employers who hire illegal works. This makes sense and is a much better use of resources than arresting individual illegal employees. Employers throughout the country and in Los Angeles who use illegal ...

... to fund overtime for a drug interdiction unit to work the highways trolling for asset forfeiture income, not "border security" or "terrorism." Reported the Gazette: Some Texarkana, Texas, police officers may soon be deployed to help track down ... to $43,000 for all overtime paid as well as mileage and for vehicle use-money that will come from Department of Homeland Security grants administered through the DPS and the governor's Division of Emergency Management. The stateside enforcement program ...

In November, 2008, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) implemented a new rule through the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) that would force companies doing business with the federal government to clear their workers through a verification ... to work on a federal project. It works by comparing the name of the queried worker against submitted I-9 forms - the Social Security Administration's paper based means of verifying worker status - and the DHS's 60 million records of immigrants. ...

... -match letter in order to avoid being deemed to have constructive knowledge of an employee's unauthorized work status. The Department of Homeland Security proposed rules can be read here. Employers annually send the Social Security Administration (SSA) millions of earnings reports (W-2 Forms) in which the combination of employee name and social security number (SSN) does not match SSA records. In some of these cases, SSA sends a letter that informs ...