Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If sequestration cuts aren’t restored, they will cost the Homeland Security Department about $3.2 billion this fiscal year, Fierce Homeland Security reports. To make up for the lost money, the department, which reached 10 years old March 1, would need to cut more than 5% across the board. Other federal agencies face…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security released more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation because of looming budget cuts, not a few hundred as originally reported, Catholic Online writes.Since Feb. 15, about 1,000 illegal immigrants considered low risk have been released each week, according to Catholic Online. The Obama administration said it was not aware of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Homeland Security has begun to empty out some immigration jails ahead of the looming mandatory budget cuts, the Associated Press reports. The AP wrote that ICE has reviewed hundreds of cases and began removing an undisclosed number of illegal immigrants, who were “placed on an appropriate, more cost-effective form…
Opinion The Bakersfield Californian The prospect for real bipartisan progress on immigration reform may take a serious hit if sequestration, the automatic cuts scheduled for March 1, take place. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano informed the Senate Appropriations Committee last week the cuts will result in a workforce-hours reduction equivalent to 5,000 Border Patrol agents,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The nation’s security is at risk under $85 billion in budget reductions that will go into effect if Republicans and Democrats can’t agree soon on spending cuts, said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, CNN reports. “Sequestration would roll back border security, increase wait times at our nation’s land ports of entry and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano criticized Republican lawmakers for suggesting that immigration is on the verge of getting out of control, the Associated Press reported. While inspecting border security in El Paso, Napolitano said arrests and the seizure of drugs, weapons and currency are up. “I believe the border is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security is preparing sweeping budget cuts that could result in as many as 1,000 Secret Service agents, officers and others being furloughed, the Washington Guardian reports. In an agency wide memo last week, officials warned of reductions that are needed in the event of sequestration, which is an automatic budget cut…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com You’re holed up in your office when a crazed gunman opens fire. What to do? Fight back with a pair of scissors. The advice is part of an instructional video from the Department of Homeland Security on how to respond to a mass killer, the New York Post reports. “If you are…
