News from October 2022
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
A local man was sentenced Oct. 21 to 188 months in prison for distributing child pornography.In addition to the lengthy prison sentence, U.S.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
A local woman who conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine pleaded guilty in federal court Oct. 21, following a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and joint law enforcement partner investigation.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the United States Attorney’s Office recently announced the creation of, and first case brought by, the newly formed Fentanyl Abatement and Suppression Team in partnership with the District Attorney’s Office, U.S.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
An investigation conducted by the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
On Oct. 12, the Sierra Vista Police Department (SVPD) assisted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), arrested a local area man on five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after law enforcement received information that child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was transferred online using a Sierra Vista-area internet protocol (IP) address.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
A Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tampa task force was awarded during the 69th Annual Attorney General’s Awards ceremony earlier this year.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is extending certain COVID-19-related flexibilities through Jan. 24, 2023, to assist applicants, petitioners, and requestors.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released a report he requested from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing employee discrimination and harassment issues within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, issued the below statement on the Biden Administration’s release of its new National Security Strategy:
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
Under President Biden, at the U.S.-Mexico border, there has been an unprecedented number of migrant encounters, deaths, terror watchlist apprehensions, smuggled Unaccompanied Alien Children, trafficked drugs, and arrests of border crossers with criminal convictions.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
House Homeland Republicans On DHS’ Friday Night Release of September Border Encounters
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
As the nation’s risk advisor, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) leads the national effort to protect U.S.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-WI) that would help save taxpayer dollars by directing the General Services Administration (GSA) to install the most life-cycle cost effective and energy-efficient lighting in public buildings has been signed into law.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
U.S Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have sent a letter urging the Biden administration to take additional action to tackle the rise in illegal opioids entering the U.S. Specifically, the senators called on the administration to fully implement the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP Act), their bipartisan legislation enacted in 2018 to decrease fentanyl shipments by reducing the number of countries exempted from this law.
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics showing that 2022 was the worst year at the border on record, with 2.4 million border encounters, more border encounters than any year on record which makes it clear that this administration must take action to address the border crisis
By Press release submission | Oct 26, 2022
U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Training for the Acquisition Workforce Act to help bolster the federal workforce’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) has been signed into law.
