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January 31, 2009 By News Report
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today a wide-ranging action directive on immigration and border security.
The directive requires specific department offices and components to work together and with state and local partners to review and assess the plans and policies to address: criminal and fugitive aliens; legal immigration benefit backlogs; southbound gun smuggling; cooperation with the National Guard; widows and widowers of U.S. citizens; immigration detention centers; and electronic employee verification.
Napolitano has already issued 11 action directives: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) state and local integration; national planning, cybersecurity; northern border strategy; critical infrastructure protection; risk analysis; state and local intelligence sharing; transportation security; state, local and tribal integration; first responder health surge capacity and Hurricane Katrina.
Today's directive is the last in an initial series on a wide variety of issues impacting the department's critical missions: Protection, Preparedness, Response, Recovery and Immigration.
The full action directive is below:
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It's about time. More power to her. Can the law enforcement folks act as positively?
It's about time. More power to her. Can the law enforcement folks act as positively?
It's about time. More power to her. Can the law enforcement folks act as positively?
Why spend a trillion dollars to create three million jobs when we could simply deport three million illegal workers?
Why spend a trillion dollars to create three million jobs when we could simply deport three million illegal workers?
Why spend a trillion dollars to create three million jobs when we could simply deport three million illegal workers?