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Recent News About U.S. Department Of Homeland Security
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Transportation Security Administration officers prevented a Pennsylvania man from bringing loaded gun onto flight at Harrisburg International Airport.
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Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers detained a Salvadorian national in New Jersey for allegedly lying about his past in his immigration application.
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A coordinated effort by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City, the Ray County Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Clay County Sheriff's Office, and the help of concerned citizens led to the recent capture of a fugitive charged with stabbing his pregnant girlfriend.
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Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston recently removed a Colombian citizen back to his country
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The U.S. Department of Justice filed a forfeiture complaint against one of the largest seizures of munitions shipments.
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Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston deportation officers recently arrested and removed to Ecuador an unlawfully present Ecuadoran citizen guilty of causing a "gruesome" fatal traffic accident more than a decade ago.
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Sebastian Rotella is a senior reporter at ProPublica. He is a finalist for the Tom Renner Award for his article, How a Chinese-American Gangster Transformed Money Laundering for Drug Cartels.
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pledged support from the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Mississippi to survey damage from recent tornadoes.
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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas promoted U.S. efforts to mitigate technology misuse and abuse during the second Summit for Democracy virtual gathering last month in Washington, D.C.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell attended the National Emergency Management Association’s Mid-Year Forum in Alexandria, Va. to discuss ongoing recovery efforts across the nation and to propose overhauling the nation's emergency recovery response programs.
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Questions about how to qualify statistics from the U.S.-Mexico border are being raised after U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas refused to call the situation at the border a “crisis” on "60 Minutes."
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency are on hand to assist the state of Mississippi following a string of tornadoes that devastated the region.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently announced more than $3 million in grant funding for Vermont to reimburse the state for medical costs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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U.S. Chief Border Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez of the agency's Rio Grande Valley Sector tweeted about border patrol's March 17 encounters with Chinese nationals.
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U.S. Chief Border Patrol Agent John Modlin stated in front of a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing last month that border apprehensions were already considered unprecedented and have now moved beyond that and he couldn't find a proper adjective to describe the situation.
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The chief of Border Patrol released video footage recently showing a smuggler crossing the U.S.-Mexican border and abandoning a 1-year-old child on the U.S. side of the southern border. This comes on the heels of comments by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has refused to state if the American southern border is actually secure.
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The Center for Immigration Studies recently reported that the Florida vs. the U.S. lawsuit has limited the Biden administration’s ability to release illegal migrants by ruling the detention mandate in Section 235(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) also applies to the government.
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Victor Avila has lived by, worked along and watched the U.S.-Mexican border for years. The former federal agent has a blunt assessment of its current state.
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The Senate Finance Committee discussed ways to combat rising drug prices at its March 30 meeting "Hearings to Examine Pharmacy Benefit Managers and the Prescription Drug Supply Chain, Focusing on the Impact on Patients and Taxpayers."
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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Deanne Criswell, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, visited Mississippi in the wake of devastating tornadoes that struck the region March 24, to assess the damage and meet with officials.