By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the wake of the attack in Canada, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said he’s ordering more security for more than 9,500 federal government buildings, CNN reported. CNN reports that Johnson said the new security measures are a precautionary guard against “continued public calls by terrorist organizations for attacks…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey expressed no patience with reported turf battles between the FBI and other federal agencies, Politico reports. Comey said he was rattled after reading a memo about the turf battles. “That report made my head explode,” Comey said at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday. “I shared…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Funding to combat illegal immigration may be gone in less than a month, warned Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson. Johnson is urging lawmakers to approve an emergency spending bill. At the current rate, Johnson said funds for the U.S. Immigration Customs would dry up in the mid-August. Cash for Border Protection would…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. is increasing security at some overseas airports because of fears that some terrorist groups in the Middle East are devising bombs to slip past security, the USA Today reports. Noting that security risks are constantly evolving, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said TSA will begin “enhanced security measures in the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com About 150 Border Patrol agents are being sent to South Texas to help out authorities who are overwhelmed by a spike in illegal immigration from Central America, the Statesman reports. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson made the announcement on his third trip to the Border Patrol’s McAllen station in southernmost Texas in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is defending the agency’s handling of tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrants from Central America who were photographed in squalid, overcrowded conditions. The McClatchy Washington Bureau reports that Johnson also rejected Republican demands for the National Guard to respond to the crisis. Johnson unveiled a plan to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a major departure from his predecessor, new Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson is complaining that the border needs to be strengthened, the Washington Times reports. Unlike predecessor Janet Napolitano, Johnson is urging Congress to help improve border security. Napolitano took on the tone that the border was more secure than ever….
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…
