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19 Jul 2006, 5:36 am
[JURIST] A draft report [PDF text] by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) [official website] released by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee [official website] Wednesday has found that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] lost hundreds of thousands of dollars last year through fraud and abusive spending as a result of poor oversight [read post]
9 Jul 2006, 5:08 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Homeland Security [official website] resumed its repatriation program [JURIST report; DHS backgrounder] for illegal immigrants from Mexico Friday with a flight carrying 67 people to Mexico City. [read post]
28 May 2006, 5:00 pm
There also is the United States Coast Guard, which is controlled by the Department of Homeland Security. [read post]
11 May 2006, 10:24 am
As seen on washingtontechnology.com: "The Homeland Security Department is enlisting the help of a non-profit organization to obtain cybersecurity tools for operating systems, servers and databases used by the federal government. [read post]
21 Apr 2006, 11:32 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Homeland Security [official website] and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) [official website] announced a comprehensive plan to combat illegal immigration [press release] on Thursday which involves cracking down on companies that harbor illegal workers. [read post]
13 Feb 2006, 10:39 am
[JURIST] Government investigators told the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee [official website] in a hearing [prepared testimony] Monday that the relief effort for Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive] had been plagued by fraud [JURIST news archive] and abuse costing taxpayers millions. [read post]
10 Feb 2006, 11:38 am
They obviously fear retaliation, including the forced return to their homelands. [read post]
17 Dec 2005, 10:56 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] late Friday evening narrowly approved [roll call vote] a tough new border security and immigration bill that includes plans to build a security fence across 621 miles of the Mexican border and authorizes the US Department of Homeland Security to study the possibility of placing barriers across the famously "undefended" US border with [read post]
29 Oct 2005, 11:59 am
[JURIST] Democrats on the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations [official website] claimed in a minority staff report [PDF] on the UN Oil-for-Food scandal released Friday that the US Treasury Department failed to respond to UN requests for help in investigating business improprieties and missed an opportunity to stop at least one US corporation from [read post]
19 Oct 2005, 7:14 am
[JURIST] Attorneys representing undocumented immigrants who have been victims of violent crimes filed a federal suit against the US Department of Homeland Security [official website] Tuesday for the agency's failure to issue U-visas. [read post]
24 Aug 2005, 4:01 am
[JURIST] US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff [official profile] said Tuesday that the US Department of Homeland Security [official website] is preparing to increase its efforts to deal with the problem of illegal immigration. [read post]
10 Aug 2005, 9:38 am
[JURIST] US Department of Homeland Security [official website] Secretary Michael Chertoff has said that privacy concerns over the new Secure Flight passenger screening program [official website] are overstated. [read post]
19 May 2005, 9:45 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives Wednesday passed a $34 billion Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act [full text], which provides funding for anti-terrorism programs and an overhaul of the current terrorism warning system [DHS backgrounder]. [read post]
12 May 2005, 10:34 am
[JURIST] Federal officials with the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement [official website], part of the US Department of Homeland Security, announced Thursday that a federal grand jury had indicted two Washington DC law firms, two associated lawyers and two legal assistants with conspiring to commit immigration fraud by improperly obtaining work visas for alien clients. [read post]
15 Feb 2005, 10:24 am
[JURIST] The US Senate late Tuesday afternoon approved the nomination of federal appeals judge Michael Chertoff as the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. [read post]
10 Feb 2005, 3:03 am
[JURIST] The US Senate is not expected to vote on the nomination of Judge Michael Chertoff [nomination history; 2002 DOJ resume] as Secretary of Homeland Security until some time next week as several senators have requested access to an uncensored copy of a memo Chertoff wrote on interrogation techniques while at the Justice Department. [read post]