#department of homeland security

[saywhat-politics]

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced she was suspending aid for nonprofits that helped migrants and complained the non-governmental organizations were not "telling somebody about Jesus."

Noem made the announcement during an exclusive Wednesday interview on Fox News.

"Today we are announcing that we have stopped all grant funding that's being abused by NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration into this country," she told host Will Cain. "So it's amazing to me the hundreds of millions of dollars that have been spent by the federal government that has been sent to NGOs to facilitate this invasion of our country."

[thedialoguedilemma]

The Senate votes to confirm South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

Kristi Noem in her book famously bragged about killing her own dog and a goat.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

The only thing Trump should do with the DHS is abolish it.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/it-is-time-to-abolish-the-department-of-homeland-security

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[jacksproject2025]

Sworn in on Saturday, on ICE raids on Monday.

A woman’s work is never done. 🇺🇸

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ximena Bustillo and Sergio Martínez-Beltrán at NPR:

Immigration authorities can now enter schools, healthcare facilities and places of worship to conduct arrests, according to a new policy from the Department of Homeland Security. "Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America's schools and churches to avoid arrest," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. "The Trump administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense." The directive, which covers agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, rescinds guidance from the Biden administration that created "protected areas" that primarily consisted of places where "children gather, disaster or emergency relief sites, and social services establishments." The Biden-era guideline mandated that immigration enforcement operations shouldn't take place  in or near a location that would limit peoples' access to "essential" services or activities. A second directive DHS announced on Tuesday also followed through on one of President Trump's executive orders signed Monday night to "terminate all categorical parole programs that are contrary to the policies of the United States established in my Executive Orders," including the humanitarian parole program for people from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela.

The tyrannical Trump Regime revokes protections from sensitive places such as schools, healthcare facilities and places of worship, thereby permitting jackboot ICE/CBP agents to conduct arrests in those places.

See Also:

The Guardian: Trump says immigration authorities can arrest people at churches and schools

Axios: ICE can raid churches and schools to arrest immigrants under new policy

AP, via HuffPost: Trump Throws Out Policies Limiting Arrests Of Migrants At Sensitive Locations Like Schools, Churches

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

The Committee request that the Department of Homeland Security list all of the people who violated the law and are being deported because of their association with terror groups. After some stonewalling, the DHS answered the question: Zero.

Keep in mind that in October, the US declared Samidoun - which has been instrumental in many antisemitic protests - to be a terrorist organization, a fundraising front for the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine. 

Yet even before the designation, there were other reasons to investigate foreign student protesters. Not only does the law say that aliens associated with terrorism are inadmissible to the US, but also "Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible." 

Most of the major protests have been organized by communist groups like ANSWER (it is linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation which describes itself as communist), and Samidoun is also linked to many communist groups itself.

In short, if the DHS wanted to protect Jews on campus, it has plenty of ammunition to not only get rid of foreign participants and supporters of antisemitic protests but also to send a message of intolerance for intolerance.

[the-daughter-of-lilith]

How are we living in 2024 with the future head of the Department of Homeland Security not having ANY fundamental knowledge on Cybersecurity. This is an absolute disgrace. People study their asses off to be in the field.

[orchidvioletindigo]

Who wants to help break a paywall on a very important piece of news that's currently only being reported by a single source?

[saywhat-politics]

The firings are a move not to reduce the size of the workforce but to get rid of people the administration sees as not on board with its goals.

Feb. 17, 2025, 4:00 PM MST / Updated Feb. 17, 2025, 4:46 PM MST

By Julia Ainsley

The Trump administration is preparing to fire hundreds of high-level Department of Homeland Security employees this week as part of a move to rid the country’s third-largest agency of people deemed to be misaligned with the administration’s goals, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

The sources said the Trump administration has a “centralized plan” and a list of people in high-level positions across every component of DHS who are to be targeted this week.

[wikipediapictures]

United States Secret Service

“Secret Service analyst examining counterfeit documents.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[gwydionmisha]

Trump officials asked over a dozen senior career diplomats to step down, sources say

Here comes the partisan purge as part of the Republican war on good government and expertise..

Remember how W insisting all intelligence briefings should be tailored to what he wanted to hear led to 9/11 being successful? They are planning competent non-partisan people with integrity from our intelligence services so they can do that on a large scale for 47.

On a related note Ratcliffe has basically vowed to do just that at the CIA, which is why 47 picked him. It's also why he wants Kash Patel for the FBI.

He is replacing vetted, competent people with people he didn't bother to vet and is giving them security clearances willy nilly.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lauren Aratani at The Guardian:

Kristi Noem secured US Senate confirmation as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and Donald Trump’s plans to clamp down on illegal immigration during his second presidency. The Senate worked on Saturday as Republicans successfully sought to install the latest member of Trump’s national security team. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth was confirmed in a dramatic tie-breaking vote by JD Vance Friday night, joining the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the CIA director, John Ratcliffe. The Senate is scheduled to next vote Monday evening on Scott Bessent’s confirmation as treasury secretary. Republicans unanimously voted to confirm Noem and got support from seven Democrats, including John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Andy Kim of New Jersey, Gary Peters of Michigan, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Margaret Hassan of New Hampshire and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan. The final vote was 59-34. Democrats – or those caucusing with their party – who did not vote were Angus King of Maine, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Ron Wyden of Oregon, according to the New York Times.

[...] The homeland security secretary oversees US Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services. Beyond those agencies, the department is also responsible for securing airline transportation, protecting dignitaries, responding to natural disasters and more. Noem, who held her state’s lone US House seat for eight years before becoming governor in 2019, has risen in the Republican party by tacking closely with Trump. At one point, she was even under consideration to be his running mate. Her political stock took a momentary dip, however, when she released a book last year containing an account of her killing her hunting dog, as well as a false claim that she once met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Noem does not have any experience in law enforcement but has pledged to faithfully execute the president’s orders and copied his talk of an “invasion” at the US border with Mexico.

Where’s Major and Commander when you need them? Those two doggies should nibble all over the dog-killing South Dakota Governor.

Dog-killer Kristi Noem got confirmed 59-34 in the Senate to head up the DHS.

See Also:

AP, via HuffPost: Senate Confirms Kristi Noem As Trump's Homeland Security Secretary

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Luke Rosiak

The Department of Homeland Security is facing a lawsuit after Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to explain why a former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was still employed by the department months after The Daily Wire exposed her support for terrorism and extreme anti-Semitism.

Nejwa Ali was hired by the U.S. government to “perform credible fear interviews by reviewing evidence, credibility, and determine admissibility” of asylum-seekers. While working for DHS, her social media consisted largely of a jihad against Jews, posting memes celebrating Hamas terrorists paragliding into a dance festival with guns, writing “F*** Israel, the government, and its military. Are you ready for your downfall?” and sharing videos with captions like “F*** Israel and any Jew that supports Israel,” The Daily Wire revealed October 18.

DHS said it put her on leave after that story, but six months later, she was still being paid, gloating online about her unpaid leave and seeming to suggest that Mayorkas was protecting her. On social media, when somebody commented on her page, “When you do everything you can to get fired but the boss says NO,” she responded, “hilarious, seriously.

The department violated the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to provide documents about Ali in response to a November request, according to a new lawsuit filed by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) against DHS.

The FOIA sought “records related to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Adjudication Officer Nejwa Ali and a potential conflict of interest in administering her duties,” exploring whether she ushered in dangerous Palestinians or denied entry to Israelis.

[speedbird1987]

So far so good. I added some details to all characters with their Uniforms prior to their appearance in the series. The latest one that I did was earlier prior to my summer holiday break. I also fixed up the Fire Axe, Flashlight (Torch), and Fire Hose. In case anyone forgot, The list of each character with their Respective Uniform is here.

Station Officer Norris Steele: Pontypandy Fire Service (1987-1994)

Firefighter Elvis Cridlington: Pontypandy Fire Service (2003-2007)

Fireman Sam: Pontypandy Fire Service (2008-2015)

Firefighter Penny Morris: Pontypandy Fire Service (2015-2022)

Pilot Officer Tom Thomas: Royal Australian Air Force (Flight Suit)

Petty Officer 1st Class Ben Hooper: United States Coast Guard (Rescue Swimmer Dry Suit)

Firefighter Arnold McKinley: Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (Ballyclare EN469 Turnout)

Firefighter Ellie Phillips: London Fire Brigade (Ergotech Action) (2010-2018)

Police Constable Malcolm Williams: Metropolitan Police (Motorbike Patrol)

Sergeant Rose Ravani: South Wales Police/Heddlu de Cymru (Mounted Police Unit)

Pilot Krystyna Kaminski: Pontypandy Fire Service (Air Rescue/Air Support) (2022-present)

[trump-executive-orders]

Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military's COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate

Issued January 27, 2025.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. On August 24, 2021, the Secretary of Defense mandated that all service members receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The Secretary of Defense later rescinded the mandate on January 10, 2023. The vaccine mandate was an unfair, overbroad, and completely unnecessary burden on our service members. Further, the military unjustly discharged those who refused the vaccine, regardless of the years of service given to our Nation, after failing to grant many of them an exemption that they should have received. Federal Government redress of any wrongful dismissals is overdue.

Sec. 2. Redress. Consistent with the policies announced in section 1 of this order, the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, shall take all necessary action permitted by law to:

(a) make reinstatement available to all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged solely for refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and who request to be reinstated;

(b) enable those service members reinstated under this section to revert to their former rank and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments, or compensation; and

(c) allow any service members who provide a written and sworn attestation that they voluntarily left the service or allowed their service to lapse according to appropriate procedures, rather than be vaccinated under the vaccine mandate, to return to service with no impact on their service status, rank, or pay.

Sec. 3. Additional Agency Responsibilities. (a) Nothing in this order precludes disciplinary or administrative action for conduct that is proscribed by chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code (Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. 801-946a).

(b) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall report to the President through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs on their progress in implementing this order.

Sec. 4. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of its provision to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

I made the original of this one a few years ago; but I needed to go back and edit it.