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...involved in controlling the nation's borders. The idea, says Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, is to present "one face at the border." It's long overdue. Such a merger was talked about as far back as Herbert Hoover's Administration, but the departments that control services like the Coast Guard (Transportation), Immigration and Naturalization (Justice) and Customs (Treasury) have jealously guarded their turf. Merging them will be a culture shock, as each has its traditions and ways of doing business...
Suggesting another potential explanation for the regional discrepancies, Fitzsimmons said that there had been “some speculation...that the events of 9-11 may have kept down the numbers of applications from the West Coast and some of the applications from abroad, particularly in the Middle East?...
...field on a gurney, and thanks to a contraption designed by his sons, who were engineers, he was able to pull the trigger with his teeth. Another hunter, Jim, got around in a camouflaged wheelchair with all-terrain wheels. He had broken his back 26 years ago in the Coast Guard at the age of 21. “I enjoy the serenity,” he nodded, “the opportunity to escape it all and clear the cobwebs...
Republicans and Democrats both laud the new department, which will control 22 different government agencies, including the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard. The cabinet-level department is intended to bridge the gap between protection and intelligence. This restructuring is the most significant change to the executive branch of the federal government since Harry S. Truman created the Department of Defense...
...going to do a similar program next fall on the East Coast, and we hope to initiate smaller programs in secondary cities throughout the country,” Crone said...