There's a whole bunch of Bill Ayers clones who are ready to join agencies like DHS. The very name was found in the military wing of the KGB. They possessed their own naval and air forces as well as regimental type land forces. They were titled border or motherland (Rodina) guards. Stalinists like Ayers would feel extremely comfortable in the new DHS.
BTW many here on FR, though not me unfortunately, railed against the very idea of the DHS and Patriot Act at the time of their creation. Those folks can give the rest of us a very big I Told You So!!