Posts Tagged Janet Napolitano

Report: Number of Muslim-Americans indicted for terrorist plots going down

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.09.12 | 6:15 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The number of Muslim-Americans indicted for violent plots and/or offering financial support to terrorism declined for the second straight year, according to a study released Wednesday.

“Muslim-American Terrorism in the Decade Since 9/11″ More… (.pdf), the third annual report on this issue, states that 20 Muslim-Americans were indicted for violent terrorist

Secure Communities task force to Homeland Security: Stop Secure Communities

By Marcos Restrepo | 01.06.12 | 4:49 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Former members of a task force on Secure Communities sent a letter this week to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calling on her to suspend the immigration enforcement program.
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Homeland Security severs immigration-enforcement ties with Arizona sheriff

By Marcos Restrepo | 12.16.11 | 9:23 am | More from The Florida Independent

The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it is immediately terminating its immigration-enforcement agreements with the office of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz. More…

Immigration rally in Washington, D.C.

Napolitano defends Secure Communities immigration strategy

By Marcos Restrepo | 10.05.11 | 7:02 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered a speech today at American University about border security, immigration enforcement and her department’s controversial Secure Communities program. More…

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Steve King wants congressional hearings on Obama’s ‘drunken Uncle Omar’

By | 09.14.11 | 3:30 pm

Last month, Onyango Obama, half-brother to the President Obama’s father, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and then held by authorities due to an outstanding deportation last month. More …

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Republican lawmakers, conservatives use arrest of Obama’s uncle to attack deportation reform

By | 08.30.11 | 5:34 pm

Onyango Obama, half-brother to President Barack Obama’s father, was arrested More… last week in Massachusetts on suspicion of drunken driving. He is now being held without bail by federal immigration officials because, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), he had a prior deportation order at the time of his arrest.

Obama to reduce deportations, issue work permits to some undocumented

By | 08.18.11 | 4:43 pm

Many undocumented immigrants without criminal records who are up for deportation will be allowed to indefinitely stay in the United States and apply for work permits, said U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday. More…