Word: homelands
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Schwarzenegger has alienated Hispanics with his support of the Minutemen--a group of border-patrolling vigilantes--and of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's decision last week to finish building a 14-mile "security fence" along the border between California and Mexico. (The decision also outraged environmentalists concerned about damage to rare birds and foliage in the Tijuana estuary.) And in what many perceived as a symbolic snubbing, a reporter from La Opinión, California's largest Spanish-language newspaper, was barred last week from a Schwarzenegger event to which two English-language journalists were admitted...
Back on the ground, the Administration and Congress have had to prove they are at least attempting to mind the store. To help win passage of the $51.8 billion relief bill, Congress allocated $15 million to the Department of Homeland Security to closely monitor the spending, a sum DHS inspector general Richard Skinner termed "a good start." His office, along with the White House Office of Management and Budget, is required to give Congress weekly briefings on how the money is being spent. The first such report spanned 10 spreadsheet-packed, rather puzzling pages--including a two-page glossary--breaking...
...little coordination among federal, state and local authorities. The Gulf Coast contains vital ports for oil and natural gas and should have been given a high priority in U.S. defense planning against terrorism. The government's unpreparedness makes me extremely skeptical of the effectiveness of the Department of Homeland Security. It certainly didn't seem to have made plans for evacuation and disaster management in this major urban area. The scale of the disaster may have been unprecedented, but I thought the Bush Administration had spent the years since 9/11 planning for the unprecedented. BETH CONLIN Brookline, Mass...
...recent day, a lone piece of paper weighed down by a brick flapped in the Gulf breezes on one of the concrete slabs that had been swept clean by the storm surge. Printed large in the upper left corner of the page was the seal of the Department of Homeland Security. The letter, addressed to the owner Gladis Miskell, read: "I visited your home today to perform an inspection of the damages to your home and personal property caused by the recent disaster. Since you were not here, I was unable to complete the inspection. Your application for temporary Housing...
Will we allow one foreseeable catastrophe after another to cut down our proudest cities, one by one? For now, the good old boys at FEMA and Homeland Security can cross New York and New Orleans off the top of their list of likely disasters. Whats next...