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...days right after 9/11, the Immigration and Naturalization Service rounded up about 750 foreign nationals and detained them on immigration charges. Most have been released, but more than 100 remain in federal custody. On March 1, immigration control was transferred to the new Department of Homeland Security. One of the department's first steps was to announce that henceforth anyone arriving from one of 33 mostly Muslim nations and seeking asylum in the U.S. would be automatically jailed while the asylum application was pending. (Asylum is a form of protection that allows foreigners to remain here, provided they meet...
...Some people might say I’m being too alarmist on these matters, but I don’t think so,” he told the audience of a day-long symposium titled “Homeland and Global Security: Science, Technology, and the Role of the University...
...concerns mirror those that have preoccupied universities nationwide, including Harvard—concerns that drive to the heart of what it means to be a research institution in a nation working to combat homeland-security threats...
...Homeland security—well, I think this is the mother of all systems problems,” Vest said. “If every there was an area that required out-of-the-box, innovative thinking, this...
...newly formed Department of Homeland Security wields a hefty budget of $850 million, and has begun put this funding behind various projects...