Homeland Security

Although President Donald Trump and members of his administration continue to cite a purportedly fraudulent electoral process as the reason for Joe Biden’s Election Night win last week, a Department of Homeland Security agency has deemed that the 2020 vote was secure on a historical level. On Thursday, DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) […]

90 Day Fiance star Larissa Lima’s arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers was not the publicity stunt that most of her fans thought that it was, according to TMZ. In fact, the reality TV star may be in jeopardy of being deported back to her native Brazil. Lima was arrested over the weekend in […]

The top two officials at the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli were both ruled ineligible to be serving in their current positions on Friday by the Government Accountability Office. John Haltiwanger of Business Insider wrote that both the acting secretary and acting deputy secretary, respectively, were “invalidly appointed” and are ineligible […]

More than 250 individuals have been arrested in Michigan this year as a result of a sting operation that involved a fake university created several years ago by the Department of Homeland Security. According to a report from USA Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security created the University of Farmington in an attempt to […]

The identity of an anonymous “senior Trump administration official” who has authored a new book that offers a disturbing, behind-the-scenes portrait of Donald Trump has not yet been revealed. The book portrays Trump as, in the words of a Washington Post report, “cruel, inept and a danger to the nation.” The media and the administration […]

Dairy Queen was forced to clarify to its customers that it does not serve human meat in its burgers after a bizarre incident at a South Carolina location involving a swarm of federal agents and an unsubstantiated rumor, Fox News reports. The story, involving wire fraud, accusations of terrorism, accusations of cannibalism, and a giant […]

The Trump administration moved on Wednesday to indefinitely detain children and their families attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. According to CNN, the government announced plans to replace a decades-old federal law that limits detention to 20 days. The Flores settlement, as the agreement is known, has reportedly been a thorn in the side of […]

With Kirstjen Nielsen leaving her position as the head of Homeland Security, President Donald Trump has announced her replacement. Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of United States Customs and Border Protection, will replace Nielsen as the acting secretary of the department, according to The New York Times. “I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the […]

Donald Trump took to Twitter this week to share a copy of a check for $100,000 that he was donating from his presidential salary directly to the Department of Homeland Security, which critics point out represents roughly 3 percent of what taxpayers spend for each of Trump’s twice-weekly golfing trips. Trump had vowed before taking […]

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke on Wednesday about President Donald Trump’s family separation policy, and her comments have not gone down very well. According to Vox, Nielsen seemed wholly unprepared when she arrived at the hearing, which was called by the House majority Democrats. As part of her testimony, she had one particularly shocking […]

A sting operation set up in 2015 has resulted in dozens of arrests on Wednesday after recruiters and illegal immigrants were uncovered by the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). The undercover operation, which was named “Paper Chase,” involved ICE setting up a “fake university” in order to lure undocumented […]

Before Donald Trump became president, he was best known for his role on the reality TV franchise, “The Apprentice.” At the end of each episode leading up to the season finale, at least one person would be deemed unfit to continue. Trump was branded with his catch phrase, “You’re Fired!” During his term as president, […]

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has urged President Donald Trump to allow a caravan of Central Americans into the United States to seek asylum. According to a UNHCR spokesperson, Andrej Mahecic, the caravan comprises people who are fleeing violence and persecution, therefore, they should be allowed in the country to gain refugee statuses, per […]

The American Civil Liberties Union said that nearly 250 immigrant children remain separated from their parents in government facilities, despite a federal judge’s order in June to reunite the families within 30 days. The ACLU revealed that 245 parents are still in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR, after analyzing the […]

President Donald Trump and his administration revealed a plan to restrict immigration further on Saturday. CNN reports that the rule was announced Saturday by the Department of Homeland Security. It would make those immigrants seeking to enter the country ineligible for a green card or visa if it seems likely that they or their family […]

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Brock Long, is subject to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general investigation regarding his use of government vehicles, Politico reports. Long lives in Hickory, North Carolina, and has reportedly been using government vehicles to commute from his home to Washington, D.C. His use of […]

A U.S. official has now revealed that several states had in fact been successfully hacked by unknown individuals working for the Russian government. Jeanette Manfra, head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, revealed in an interview with NBC News that 21 states in total were being targeted by the hackers prior to the […]

Sheriff David Clarke has withdrawn his application for a job in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The controversial, no-nonsense Milwaukee County lawman who is a vocal Trump supporter and police champion, as anyone with or near a television knows, announced a few weeks ago that was going to D.C. to work for the Trump […]

President Trump is wasting no time at all in moving forward with his plans to create a nationwide deportation force. According to a Department of Homeland Security document obtained by the Washington Post, measures are currently underway to fulfill Trump’s campaign pledge to develop a deportation force to locate illegal immigrants. Trump has always railed […]

When President Donald Trump pushed out his controversial travel ban earlier this month, many assumed that he had intelligence telling him these places were threats, but that is not true, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The travel ban affects Lybia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, and the Sudan. All countries are Muslim-populated, but […]

A new Quinnipiac University poll finds President Donald Trump is saddled with some of the lowest approval ratings of any recent president during his first days in office. Researchers found just over one in three voters, or 36 percent of citizens, approve of job Trump did in his first full week in office, compared to […]

Kandi Burruss has been working hard to launch another business with her husband, Todd Tucker, after having a baby. Kandi really wanted to launch a restaurant that features her mother and her aunts’ home-cooked meals, and she has been working hard on getting the restaurant up and running. But it sounds like her team has […]

The U.S. Government appears to have granted citizenship to more than 850 immigrants. Worryingly, all of the migrants were from countries that were deemed troublesome to the interests of the United States. The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has revealed that at least 858 people, who were supposed to leave the United States, were […]

It’s a story that has drug mules written all over. Two Canadian girls, traveling with a 63-year-old Canadian man have been charged with one of the biggest high seas cocaine busts Australia has ever seen, according to Australian Border Force Commander Tim Fitzgerald, reports CBC News. The trio appeared in Sydney Central Court this week […]

The Leslie Jones website hack this month has prompted fans and critics alike to spread their opinions on social media. Hackers managed to get into Jones’ official website and post personal information, as well as “nude photos” and “racist imagery,” as CNET reports. It’s a serious situation in more ways than one, which is why […]

A new U.S. passport regulation has unexpectedly stopped thousands of tourists from traveling to America and could be responsible for ruining the summer plans of millions. Electronic biometric passports, identifiable by a camera logo on the bottom of the front cover, were quietly introduced by the U.S. government in April and are now required to […]

Authorities say an Ohio man is now facing federal charges after being accused of attempting to purchase a child for sex, reports the Dayton Daily News. After Craig Maher, 39, allegedly disclosed to a friend that he wanted to “drug a female child between the ages of 4 and 14 and have sex with her,” […]

Users of QuickTime for Windows were advised last Thursday by Homeland Security to uninstall the Apple video and audio player as soon as possible. According to a blog post by Trend Micro on April 14, Apple no longer issues security updates for QuickTime installed on Windows systems, and the U.S. government issued an “urgent call […]

A man was arrested in Lake Orion, Michigan after federal agents were led to his involvement in possessing and distributing child porn. On March 9, 2016, a father returned home to his quiet building in Lake Orion to find a Homeland Security raid in progress. Adam Dickson, the father in question, frantically attempted to find […]

More than 10,000 unaccompanied, illegal alien minors have illegally crossed the United States border from Mexico border between October and November of this year. According to the Daily Mail, the notable surge in unaccompanied alien children (UAC) has doubled since the same period in 2014, skyrocketing to an all-time high. It has been reported that […]

Has I.S.I.S. been using a passport machine to print Syrian passports at will? Since overrunning Deir ez-Zour and Raqqa in Syria over 17 months ago, Islamic State has had a large time window to churn out real passports with false information from the Syrian government’s passport printing offices in both cities. A United States Homeland […]

ISIS terrorists may have technologically advanced methods of entering the United States without alarming Homeland Security, and it’s all because of passports — fake passports, to be more specific. American authorities fear passport printing machines and blank passports have fallen into the wrong hands, and members of the jihadist militant group may be entering the […]

In the wake of the Paris attacks and with the holiday shopping season right around the corner, a letter that alleges a security threat in the form of ISIS terrorists posing as UPS drivers has been making the rounds. Although the letter is convincing enough that some law enforcement agencies have been fooled, it’s actually […]

The White House’s plan to accept Syrian refugees — up to 10,000, according to reports — is drawing fresh scrutiny following the terrorist attacks in Paris that have left 132 dead. The report of scrutiny of the White House Syrian refugee plan was first reported by The Hill, which quoted a variety of political sources […]

The Paris terrorist attacks Friday night left 129 dead, including one American, with 350 people injured and now the world is left wondering where the next attack will come. As French President Francois Hollande vowed merciless revenge and British Special Forces patrol U.K. streets, U.S. cities have also increased their security measures to protect Americans […]

Security officials in the United States have identified unnerving gaps in modern airport security protocol in an attempt to investigate the apparent failures and vulnerabilities that might instigate an aviation-related terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Experts have long argued that some of the most common airport security lapses may be related to a manifest lack […]

A 31-year-old Colorado man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for raping two young California children, filming the act and distributing the tapes as child porn to other pedophiles. Shawn McCormack, a Colorado Springs resident who used to live in Bakersfield, California, was sentenced to life in prison for four counts of sexual exploitation […]

The Secret Service Scandal mill seems to still be in good working order as a new set of revelations have emerged. AP reports that an Assistant Director has been caught suggesting that embarrassing information concerning Congressman Jason Chaffetz be leaked by the Secret Service. Scandal has dogged the agency for some time now, with incidents […]

While part of the Hillary Clinton email scandal has included her recently handing over an empty server, blank and void of any information to the FBI, some of the Hillary Clinton emails do include some revealing information, among them an email request Clinton made to borrow a book with a chapter on how to delete […]

An illegal immigrant charged with attempted murder in Ohio was set free earlier this month after the U.S. Border Patrol declined to take him into custody. Authorities indicate that more felony charges against the man may be forthcoming. On July 7, Lake County sheriff’s deputies pulled over the suspect, who allegedly admitted to officers that […]

A woman was forced to live in a closet for a year after being lured by a man on Facebook. The young woman was physically and sexually abused on a daily basis, according to Richmond, California, police. U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents and Richmond police raided the home where the woman was held captive […]

Major computer problems Wednesday grounded United Airlines flights, halted the New York Stock Exchange and even took the Wall Street Journal offline, but it could get worse. Two days after the company that makes snooping software for the FBI was hacked and their source code exposed, major American industries have been smashed, and there could […]

The suspect in the fatal shooting of Kathryn Steinle has admitted to the crime, but claims it was an accident. Francisco Sanchez, the suspect in the Steinle killing, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was previously deported five times and has multiple felonies on his rap sheet in the U.S., granted a jailhouse interview to […]

Increased terror activity around the world in recent years has forced the United States’ Homeland Security Committee to increase awareness of potential terror threats around the clock. Now, the chairman of the House of Representatives, Michael McCaul, has announced that American citizens are potentially at risk following the threat of terror activity leading up to […]

Drugs can make human beings do some crazy things. It doesn’t matter if a person is a user or a dealer. People will go to great lengths to get their fix. According to an ABC report, a Jamaican man was no exception. Where he had the drugs should serve notice to those who use. There […]

A report made by the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month, titled, “ICE Air Transportation of Detainees Could Be More Effective,” was reported today by Washington Post as over $41 million wasted on sending illegal immigrants home on empty chartered flights. The amount of money that has been spent over the past 3-and-a-half years […]

John Boehner is literally blowing kisses in the face of a potential shut down of the Homeland Security Department. With less than two days to go before the shutdown begins, Boehner was asked point-blank what his plans are at a press conference on Thursday by Takeaway Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich. “With respect to you Mr. […]

In light of the terrorist attack that took the lives of several writers at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, many countries are looking into new ways to combat terrorism. The U.S. on Monday announced plans to up security through the Department Of Homeland Security, the Inquisitr reported. Now, the UK is also taking their […]

The effects of the murders by Islamic jihadists on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in response to various satirical comic strips done about their prophet, Mohammed, are still being felt as the world starts a new week. In America, the Department of Homeland Security just made an announcement of their plans to alter U.S. security […]

The recent terrorist attacks in France, Australia, and Canada have prompted the United States to issue a worldwide travel alert, as of Friday night. The travel alert came on the heels of French police killing three hostage-takers. In one of these instances, police were reported to have killed two of the men responsible for the […]