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Decoding Trump’s Border Counterterrorism Order, Part 2
But now a bigger and much more ambitious version of “extreme vetting” is on the front burner again, put there with Trump’s inauguration day executive order titled “Protecting the United States from ...
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President Trump Signs Executive Order to Close Southern Border to Illegal Immigration
President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order aimed at preventing the physical entry of individuals crossing the southern U.S. border illegally.
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CBP Announces Global Entry Partnership with Australia
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that Australia is now an official Global Entry partner country, ...
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Romanian Hell’s Angels Founder Sentenced for Racketeering, Drug Trafficking, and Murder-for-Hire Plot Targeting U.S. Law Enforcement
A foreign national who founded the Romanian chapter of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang was sentenced Jan. 15 to 25 years in federal prison for his role in a transnational racketeering and drug ...
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Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed at ‘Drastically’ Improving FEMA Efficacy, Priorities, Competence
President Donald Trump put the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under review on Sunday after signing an executive order aimed at “drastically” improving the agency’s efficacy, priorities and ...
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ACD Applauds Senate Confirmation of DHS Secretary Nominee Kristi Noem
South Dakota's 33rd Governor Kristi Noem and Trumps pick for Homeland Security secretary (Photo: CC by 4.0 for Wikipedia) The Alliance for Chemical Distribution (ACD) President and CEO Eric R. Byer ...
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Kristi Noem Fields Questions on Disaster Relief, Border, Terrorism at Confirmation Hearing
South Dakota's 33rd Governor Kristi Noem and Trumps pick for Homeland Security secretary (Photo: CC by 4.0 for Wikipedia) South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the ...
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Brownsville CBP Officers Seize $158K in Heroin at Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations officers assigned to the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge intercepted $158,145 worth of heroin in a single enforcement ...
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USCG Plus Other Vessels Rescue 4 American Boaters From Life Raft on the Atlantic Ocean
Fishermen from the fishing vessel Bonanza transport four survivors, U.S. citizens, to the container ship Coqui after rescuing them, with the assistance of a Coast Guard aircrew, from a life raft in ...
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Interview with Douglas Gilmer, PhD: Understanding the Threat of Human Trafficking
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month and in recognition HSToday’s Executive Editor Kristina Tanasichuk, sat down with Doug Gilmer, Ph.D., is a veteran of over 35 years of law enforcement ...
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U.S. Senate Confirms Kristi Noem as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in Sweeping Bi-Partisan Vote
The United States Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm Kristi Noem as the 8th Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in a vote of 59- 34. A statement from Secretary Noem on her ...