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Govt. officials could sieze your laptop and iPod
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
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The Department of Homeland Security has released internal guidelines for searching, seizing and copying the contents of electronic devices carried by U.S. travelers. Border officials may seize laptops, cell phones, and personal devices without a warrant...
Tags: electronic device, U.S, Department of Homeland Security
UT-Brownsville, Homeland Security reach border-fence pact
Brownsville :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility In a victory marked by hoots and applause by students and others opposed to a border fence through campus, University of Texas-Brownsville President Juliet Garcia today announced a federal court agreement to instead use existing perimeter fencing along...
Tags: University of Texas-Brownsville, South Texas, Department of Homeland Security, border fence, texas university, federal government, UT-Brownsville
Homeland Security slashes state funding
El Paso :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility In 2005, Massachusetts received more than $30 million in funds from the Homeland Security Grant Program, an amount that has been steadily declining ever since, Kayyem said...Burke, Public Safety and Security Secretary, said his department has focused...
Tags: security, homeland, Public Safety and Security, Department of Homeland Security
Anti-Terror Funds Questioned
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility In a sign of shifting political winds seven years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the nation's police chiefs and the heads of its 57 biggest police departments objected this year to the Bush administration's focus on domestic security, saying...
U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A Customs and Border Protection officer searched a truck at a border crossing in Blaine, Wash., in 2006...Reporter Alexandra Marks New York Is a laptop searchable in the same way as a piece of luggage?...For the past 18 months, immigration officials at...
Tags: Department of Homeland Security, Best Homeland Security Can
Chickenpox outbreak leads to detention center lockdown
Tacoma :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Officials with the Department of Homeland Security immediately began testing all 980 detainees for the highly contagious virus, which can be severe in adults and those with a weakened immune system. No one — including attorneys or family members — will...
Tags: security, homeland, Northwest Detention Center, Department of Homeland Securityï, Tacoma
Security guard -- or counter-terrorism agent?
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A security guard is expected to be arraigned today in Orange County on charges including impersonating a federal agent...Orange police arrested Kevin Javaheri, 49, in late February after they approached him in a strip mall restaurant where he was sitting...
Tags: U.S. Homeland Security, security guard, Department of Homeland Security, federal agent
US Reopening Review of Torture Charges
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Bush administration said Thursday it is re-examining the conclusions of an investigation that found the U.S. acted appropriately in seizing a Canadian engineer suspected of al-Qaida ties and sending him Syria where he allegedly was tortured. The Homeland...
Tags: torture, Maher Arar, Syria, U.S, Mr. Arar, Richard Skinner, United States, Department of Homeland Security, inspector general, Canadian
Travellers to US face new visa rules
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility United States for short breaks will face tighter restrictions on travel from January, according to new rules unveiled today. The new rules affect 27 countries, including Australia, listed on a visa waiver program and will apply to tourists and business...
Tags: United States, U.S, visa waiver, Japan, free travel, Department of Homeland Security, Western Europe, Michael Chertoff, entry rules, waiver program
U.S. to Tighten Visa-Waiver Program
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Starting in January, travelers to the U.S. from countries whose citizens aren't required to obtain visas will have to register with the Department of Homeland Security at least three days before their arrival. The program, which Homeland Security Secretary...
Tags: Department of Homeland Security, United States, U.S, Japan, Western Europe, Michael Chertoff, secretary michael, security secretary, waiver program, visa waiver
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