Feinstein Criticizes DHS on Foreigner Exit Program
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Supporters of the troubled US-VISIT program warned yesterday that the decision to suspend a crucial part of the national security program launched after the 2001 attacks will leave the nation vulnerable to terrorism.
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House members want answers from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to a number of questions, from how his department manages multibillion-dollar contracts to how it assesses risk and divvies up scarce funds.
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Evidence that doctors are at the heart of a British terrorist plot has foreign-born physicians in the U.S. on edge and wondering whether already stringent immigration security will get even tougher.
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Most of the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement work is consumed not with stopping terrorists and unraveling their support networks, but with relatively minor administrative violations, according to a new analysis of federal records.
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Most court cases brought by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security involved immigration issues not claims of terrorism, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group. But a DHS spokesman dismissed the study, saying  that, by clamping down on all forms of immigration, the agency has made it difficult for terrorists to come to the United States.
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M aura Harty , the State Department's designated flak-catcher for the public furor over three-month-plus passport issuance delays -- which are ruining many, many thousands of family vacations and educational and business trips -- is working overtime to reduce the backlog.
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U.S. homeland security officials are preparing to abandon plans to develop a system to track the departure of foreign visitors at land borders, citing cost and technical obstacles in scaling back a major post-Sept. 11 domestic security initiative, officials said.
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OCTOBER 01, 2004  - WASHINGTON -- Amit Yoran, the government&#39;s cybersecurity chief, abruptly resigned yesterday after one year with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a move that raised serious questions about the Bush
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Description: The Department of Homeland Security has been the target of criticism since its establishment two years ago. One of the priorities for Bernard Kerik as its new chief would be to facilitate the process of information sharing among agencies.
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Tom Ridge, the departing head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, called for a new international standard for biometric data on passports and said the fight against terrorism requires the use of common technology.
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Privacy advocates yesterday called on the federal government to scrap a Department of Homeland Security data-mining program designed to create terrorism risk assessments for every traveler who enters or leaves the United States.
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The official leading the US overhaul of border security stressed Tuesday that Washington was still welcoming foreigners despite a new program to track &quot;biometric&quot; data of all visitors to the United States.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday criticized security contractors in Iraq as Baghdad piled more pressure on the State Department to pull the Blackwater firm out of Iraq after deadly shootings last month.
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The Bush administration is poised to suspend a major post-Sept. 11  security initiative  in response to increasingly angry complaints from Americans whose summer vacations are threatened by new passport rules.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday criticized security contractors in Iraq as Baghdad piled more pressure on the State Department to pull the Blackwater firm out of Iraq after deadly shootings last month.
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Take it from Michael Chertoff: The Homeland Security Department is no &quot;24.&quot; Chertoff, the department&#039;s secretary, said Friday he doesn&#039;t have a way-cool, state-of-the-art Counter Terrorist Unit like the one on the Fox TV show. Bad guys aren&#039;t foiled on an hourly basis. And not everybody is romantically involved with co-workers.
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A YouTube video detailing how to manipulate foreigner hiring visas irks key senators. Giving the video a big down vote, they call for an investigation.