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News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) contributed to an investigation resulting in the arrest of two individuals this morning in Manhattan for an alleged conspiracy to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange, presently valued at approximately $4.5 billion. Thus far, law enforcement has seized over $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency linked to that hack.
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DeLauro Floor Remarks on Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act
Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) released the following statement on today's bicameral, bipartisan meeting of Appropriations Committee leadership.
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Portman Highlights Need for Congress to Pass Bipartisan Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act to Ensure National Visibility into Cyberattacks
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing on the response to and lessons learned from the threat posed by the vulnerability in Log4j software - which experts have said...
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TSA prevents Erie County man from carrying a handgun onto his flight at Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Release: CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. - An Erie County, N.Y., man was detained by police after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer at Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF) detected a loaded handgun in the man’s carry-on bag at the security checkpoint on Saturday, Feb. 5. It was the first gun detected by TSA officers at the security checkpoint this year.
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Man caught at Rochester airport security checkpoint with loaded gun
Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - An Arizona man was stopped by security officers at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport checkpoint with a loaded handgun yesterday, Monday, Feb. 7.
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FEMA Administrator Visits Recovery Projects in Florida
This week, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell traveled to Florida where she toured recovery projects and met with local and state emergency managers.
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FEMA COVID-19 Funeral Assistance State-by-State Breakdown
FEMA has provided over $1.78 billion to more than 273,000 people to assist with COVID-19-related funeral costs for deaths occurring on or after Jan. 20, 2020.
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DHS S&T Seeks Respiratory Protection Suitable for Wildland Firefighting
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a request for information (RFI) seeking effective respiratory protection for wildland firefighters to be considered for inclusion in a market survey being conducted by S&T’s National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) in collaboration with the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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DHS SBIR Seeks Solutions to Detect Survivors in a Building Collapse
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program is seeking information on technologies that can detect trapped survivors in collapsed buildings and voids.
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Secret Service Arrests Home Depot Employee for Passing $387,500 in Counterfeit Currency
United States Secret Service agents arrested Tempe Home Depot employee Adrian Jean Pineda for passing $387,500 in counterfeit U.S. currency.
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DHS Issues National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin
Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N.
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CBP Officers at Hidalgo Bridge Apprehend Fugitive Wanted for Indecency with a Child
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo International Bridge apprehended Dionisio Perez Campos, a male United States citizen from Mission, Texas who had an arrest warrant associated with child-related sex crimes.
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CBP to Hold Global Entry Enrollment Event at Missoula International Airport
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations would like to announce dates for an upcoming Global Entry enrollment event to be held by CBP at the Missoula International Airport.
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Philadelphia CBP Officers Monopolize $263K in Fake Miami-Bound Euros from Russia
A parcel of “Monopoly money” did not pass Customs and Border Protection officers, and the importer will not collect the more than $263,000 in counterfeit Euros that CBP officers seized on Thursday.
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Dulles CBP EMTs, Airport EMS Help Revive Unresponsive Woman
For a harrowing 10 minutes, U.S. Customs and Border Protection emergency medical technicians administered extraordinary lifesaving efforts on an unresponsive female traveler at Washington Dulles International Airport on Sunday.
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Louisville CBP Intercepted Over 2,000 Pounds of Narcotics in January
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to keep Americans safe from dangerous drugs that threaten communities around the U.S. CBP officers in Louisville seized a total of 2,079 pounds of illicit drugs during the month of January.
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ICE Homeland Security Investigations partners in investigation leading to 2 arrests for alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) contributed to an investigation resulting in the arrest of two individuals this morning in Manhattan for an alleged conspiracy to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange, presently valued at approximately $4.5 billion.
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USCIS Issues Policy Guidance Regarding Exemptions from the Temporary Need Requirement for H-2B Workers on Guam and the CNMI Under the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act
USCIS is issuing updated policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify how petitioners may demonstrate that they qualify for an exemption from the temporary need requirement for a nonimmigrant visa petition for a temporary nonagricultural H-2B worker on Guam and in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) that falls under the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act.
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