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Suspected and convicted foreign-born terrorists regularly exploit federal immigration laws to enter or remain illegally in the US, according to a new study released Tuesday by the Center for Immigration Studies . According to Immigration Benefits and Terrorism:...

Four California Republican lawmakers have announced that they will introduce legislation which would give California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the ability to declare a state of emergency along the border with Mexico. Current California law allows the governor...

US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday that the US Department of Homeland Security is preparing to increase its efforts to deal with the problem of illegal immigration. Last week, Arizona declared a state...

Four people filed suit Thursday against the Transportation Security Administration in an Anchorage federal court alleging that the agency illegally collected information about passengers in testing the Secure Flight Program last fall. Earlier this month,...

US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced in a press release late Friday that the threat level for transit systems nationwide was being lowered from Code Orange, or "high", to "elevated" Code Yellow. The threat level had been increased...

US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said that privacy concerns over the new Secure Flight passenger screening program are overstated. Speaking Tuesday with USA Today editors, he observed:The average American gives information...

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the US Department of Homeland Security has announced over 1,000 gang-related arrests so far this year, including 582 in just the past two weeks . DHS Secretary...

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has violated the 1974 Privacy Act by collecting personal information on nearly 250,000 people without their knowledge, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Friday. Congressional...

Enwonwu v. Chertoff, et al., US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, July 13, 2005 [ruling chastising Congress for a "virtually unprecedented" attack on judicial independence and for putting a "chokehold" on federal courts by removing, via the Real...

AP is reporting that the US terror alert level will be raised to code orange for mass transit in the wake of London explosions, according to US officials.12:37 PM ET - The UN...