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7 Apr 6:49 am
As you may know, most of the Career Services Office was in Washington, DC last week to attend the annual NALP Educational Conference. While the Conference fired us up with a number of
new ideas, one of the more important aspects of the Conference was our ability to network with employers. One of the employers, the United
States Department of Homeland Security, made it a point, and followed up
2 Aug, 2007 9:46 pm
University of Maryland Law School Visiting Associate CrimProf Orde F. Kittrie spoke at the United States Department of Homeland Security about the connection between crime and the Southwest border on July 26. Kittrie's presentation was part of a day-long conference...
18 Dec, 2006 6:48 am
... phone account, using her identity information. Suspects have also gained employment at several locations throughout the United
States using this identity information. And the victim believes, again, this started as the result of a theft of personal ... they essentially
on notice, though, the workers that - from the company, was there anything to prevent the company from saying, well, the Department of
Homeland Security and ICE is coming in here? Secretary Chertoff: Well, we asked the company not to
...
18 Jul, 2008 1:55 pm
... 's delay, and not the defendant. The court ruled that the immigration judge did indeed abuse his discretion, stating that the case completion goals were merely a guide, not a
rule that should trump consideration of the individual circumstances of ... the document that would move forward the Hashmi case being tried by another division of the Department of Homeland Security. Hashmi is a native of Pakistan and came
to the United States on a tourist visa, which expired after six months. However, Hashmi ...
2 Dec, 2008 7:42 pm
... of Health and Human Services .................. Department of Homeland Security .............................. Department of Housing and Urban Development ......... Department of the Interior .............................................. Department of Justice
.................................................... Department of Labor .......................................................
Department of State ........................................................ Department of
Transportation ...
22 Jul 2:19 pm
... , Inc.; the Society for Human Resource Management; the American Council on International Personnel; and HR Policy Association-in the United
States District Court for the District of Maryland, claiming that the Federal Contractor Rule is an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress's
power ... , D.C., the United States Senate has also weighed in in favor of E-Verify. On July 8, 2009,
Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama succeeded in amending a Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill to make E- ...
6 Nov, 2008 8:57 am
... s behalf to urge early approval of the Convention, emphasizing that it "protects and advances the national security, economic, and
environmental interests of the United States." And President Bush himself issued a statement in May
2007 urging the Senate ... . In addition, the Convention had the support of many high-level officials in the civilian agencies. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, and Secretary of Commerce Carlos
Gutierrez all wrote ...
31 Dec, 2008 3:32 pm
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 database. This database is called E-Verify and it electronically confirms whether a new hire is in the United States legally and therefore eligible to work on a federal project. It works by comparing the name of the queried worker ...
28 May 8:02 pm
HOMELAND SECURITY TO SCAN FINGERPRINTS OF PEOPLE EXITING THE UNITED STATES: "The controversial plan to scan outgoing passengers - including US citizens - was allegedly hatched
under the Bush Administration. An official has said it will be used in ... . If they're terrorists, they've had their chance to attack us already. Plus we already get passport data on
departing passengers. Getting fingerprints too just makes the identification a little more certain, so the error rate goes down two or three ...
3 Apr 5:10 am
... Law Journal has compiled a list of the 20 Most Influential General Counsels in the United States.
What have these exceptional general counsels done to receive this honor? According ... Health Inc. Nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, Ivan Fong arrived at Cardinal Health Inc.
three years ago ... puts all of that to use overseeing Cigna's approximately 240-member legal department, a job she has held for three years.
Cigna, like many other ...
5 Dec, 2008 7:29 pm
... past year not much has changed in the Department of Justice. Even with Alberto Gonzales no longer in the picture as the United States Attorney General, his effect is still ... typically highly sought after. He claims that his current
"occupation" is an advisor to homeland security and border issues for a global consulting firm.
Speaking engagements at major ... law firm Kahn Gauthier Swick, LLC. He handles KGS's securities and consumer fraud practice. Foti is still the target of much criticism for his
...
27 May 9:32 am
... past year not much has changed in the Department of Justice. Even with Alberto Gonzales no longer in the picture as the United States Attorney General, his effect is still ... typically highly sought after. He claims that his current
"occupation" is an advisor to homeland security and border issues for a global consulting firm.
Speaking engagements at major ... law firm Kahn Gauthier Swick, LLC. He handles KGS's securities and consumer fraud practice. Foti is still the target of much criticism for his
...
23 Aug, 2006 11:36 am
In a story in yesterday's Washington Post entitled Officials Seek Broader Access to Airline Data, it is revealed that the Department of
Homeland Security and European authorities are seeking access to the major airline booking databases
for booking, personal, and payment information in an effort to track potential terrorists: United States and European authorities, looking for more tools to detect terrorist plots, want to expand the screening of ...
3 Aug, 2007 3:32 pm
... 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 ... , including clerical error and name changes. But one of the causes is the submission of information for an alien
who is not authorized to work in the United States and is using a false SSN or a SSN assigned to
someone else. Such a letter may be one ...
20 Nov, 2008 10:45 am
... and Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz., right, before making remarks about border security and immigration reform at Davis-Monthan Air Force
Base, Nov. 28, ... /Evan Vucci) UPDATE: As President-elect Obama reportedly vets Janet Napolitano for Homeland Security Secretary, we noticed one interesting tidbit about Napolitano's past ... make illegal immigration possible: she ordered state contractors to
ensure that their employees are legal, set up an undercover unit to catch forgers of identity documents and ...
10 Aug 10:49 am
Web Site Comprised of 13 hour-long episodes shot entirely on location throughout the United States,
Homeland Security USA is based on a popular Australian series now in its fifth season. Produced by
Oscar and Emmy-winner Arnold ... and always unpredictable. These aren't heroes. They're average men and women working against an epic landscape. The Department's missions include everything from vetting adoption papers and checking visitors' passports to intercepting undocumented immigrants, drugs and ...
20 Aug 11:50 am
On August 19, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) announced that it was rescinding its August 2007 and October 2008 regulatory amendments concerning actions employers can take to benefit from "safe harbor" ... actions within
prescribed timeframes, they could shield themselves from liability for allegedly employing individuals who lacked authorization to work in the United States. For additional information on the revised regulation, please review prior blog postings on this
topic. In its ...
17 Dec, 2007 1:04 pm
In a Dec. 12, 2007 speech in Washington, D.C., Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff stressed
the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) priorities in
the 2008 calendar year which include immigration and border ... Chertoff again called for a comprehensive program that would provide options for the estimated 12 million immigrants
currently living in the United States illegally. Moreover, he recognized that "the government needs
to make a down payment on credibility with the American people ...
20 Jan, 2008 11:42 pm
... a platform for terrorists." Chertoff said he had seen "home-grown terrorism begin to rise in Europe". The Homeland Security officials have been increasingly concerned for a long time now. In July 2005, Atlantic Review quoted a Brookings Fellow writing in Foreign Affairs:
"The growing nightmare of officials at the Department of Homeland Security is passport-carrying, visa-exempt mujahideen coming from the United States' western European allies." Apparently the nightmares have not been all that ...
7 Sep, 2007 9:27 am
... protect the U.S. border as well as remove dangerous criminal aliens from the country. On the fourth anniversary of the Department of
Homeland Security, the blanket agency in charge of preventing another terrorist attack, a lengthy
Congressional investigative report details serious shortcomings ... has left the country vulnerable to another deadly attack. Cases and leads involving terrorist activities in the
United States have actually been dropped because the FBI and ICE refuse to team up. Other ...
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