Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com City and county jails are increasingly rejecting federal requests to hold immigrants who are in the country illegally. Now the Justice Department plans to do something about it – reduce deportation mainly to immigrants who have committed violent crimes, the Los Angeles Times reports. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is expected to make…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The news keeps getting worse for a massive new headquarters for Homeland Security in Washington. The Washington Post reports that the project is now 11 years behind schedule, $1.5 billion over budget and may never be finished. The call for a new, centralized headquarters came in the aftermath of the Sept. 11,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service wants a full investigation launched into claims that agents were forced to leave their posts protecting the White House complex in 2011 so they could monitor a friend of the agency’s former director. The Washington Post reports that Director Julia Pierson is calling for Homeland Security’s new inspector general…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Tampa woman who punched a Homeland Security agent in the face may find herself in prison, the Associated Press reports. Latrese Brantley, 40, faces up to 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty Wednesday to assaulting a federal agent. Brantley was causing a disturbance on the April 30 flight and was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security arrested more than 600 suspected gang members in what is being called the largest gang crackdown ever by the agency, the Associated Press reports. The operation, dubbed “Project Southbound,” involved Ice agents and local authorities in 179 cities, leading the arrest of 638 suspected gang members between March and April….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Homeland Security, which was created in November 2002 following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has gone far beyond its original purpose and is being used to investigate crimes unlearned to terrorism, the Albuquerque Journal reports. The new law was simple: “The primary mission of the department is to prevent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security has been placed on leave following a report that he ignored serious problems to satisfy senior Obama administration officials, the Washington Post reports. The news comes a day after the Post reported that former Inspector General Charles K. Edwards had “altered and delayed…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Homeland Security supervisor is accused of using his government-issued credit card to gamble at a West Virginia casino. WHAG News reports that Gene Protogiannis, 55, of Virginia, has been indicted on 45 counts of wire fraud for allegedly using his card in 2013 to obtain cash advances at the Hollywood…
