Word: homelands
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...recent months, the Transportation Security Administration has begun testing a new tool for detecting such materials, security industry sources tell TIME. The device, Ahura's FirstDefender, is a handheld chemical identification system about the size of a hardcover book. The FBI, U.S. Customs and Immigration and the Department of Homeland Security have already begun using the gadget to detect and identify chemical hazards, but it hasn't yet been implemented in airports. The TSA recently deployed two $160,000 explosives detection machines for Chicago's Midway International Airport, but those machines, known as puffers, aren't made to identify sealed...
...move was aimed at the contractors who supply workers for larger companies, and may herald a new enforcement era. When customs merged with immigration under the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in March 2003, it brought new expertise to immigration enforcement. Agents are now targeting employers much in the way that the Drug Enforcement Agency attacks drug dealers - going after their possessions, seizing assets in raids, pressing charges of money laundering. But advocates on both sides of the immigration debate say it does little to tackle the broader problem of workers entering into the U.S. illegally...
...that within a few weeks of Hurricane Katrina, he had decided that it was “a man-made disaster.” He even considered titling his book “Unnatural Disaster.”“Katrina was really the first full test of Homeland Security and it failed stunningly and astonishingly,” he says.And while he calls the performance of the federal government “absolutely, outrageously flawed,” Horne says he still believes in the future of New Orleans. With tax credits and federal aid now pouring into...
...tens of thousands of Cubans rafting into South Florida - just the sort of diplomatic and logistical crisis that has long spooked U.S. Presidents as much as Fidel Castro himself has. The U.S. also has to worry about a flood of joyous Cuban exiles suddenly heading back to their homeland and potentially exacerbating the chaos there, though the U.S. believes it has a solid Coast Guard plan to prevent that...
...patriotism or the easier path to citizenship, the number of immigrants serving in the military has surged four-fold since 9/11, and is now about 2% of the force. There's even discussion of plucking foreign recruits for the U.S. military even before they've left their homeland. Kevin Ryan, a retired Army brigadier general now at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, raised some Pentagon eyebrows last week when he suggested the U.S. Army open a recruiting station in India's capital, Delhi. By tapping into non-citizens eager to wear a U.S. Army uniform, he wrote...