Thank god I'm not a Republican
Posted on 03/08/2023 4:24:45 PM PST by Twotone
So the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is celebrating its 20th birthday—the perfect opportunity to rethink the whole concept of "homeland security" and how to best provide it. DHS has grown into a monster that is massively expensive, incredibly ineffective, and reliably destructive of basic civil liberties. It's time to abolish it and replace it with fewer, smaller, and more accountable agencies.
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush called for the creation of a new cabinet-level department "whose primary mission is to protect the American homeland." By pulling border security, emergency services, and immigration into a single, streamlined bureaucracy, Bush promised that the new department would "improve efficiency without growing government." Instead, we got politically manipulated, color-coded terror alerts that only made life easier for late-night comedians. The DHS budget now stands at $82 billion, or almost double its original cost in inflation-adjusted dollars. Are there really twice as many threats to the homeland as there were when the embers at Ground Zero were still smoldering and the global war on terror was ramping up?
In the early days of the war on terror, Washington was obsessed with the idea that the 9/11 attacks happened because different agencies—notably the CIA, FBI, and NSA, none of whom are part of DHS—didn't communicate with each other. Hence the idea of "a unified homeland security structure."
But critics of DHS noted from the start that it didn't actually reduce bureaucracy or streamline much of anything. It just added a new layer of red tape on top of existing agencies while creating new ones, such as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—both of which have become legendary for callousness, ineffectiveness, and root-level failures.
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Abolish it and deport that little biatch, Mayorkas. Send his azz back to Mehico.
It should never have been formed to begin with. FBI and CIA should have been able to do what the DHS was tasked to do. Now they are ALL crooked.
That joke should have never been authorized in the first place.
George W Bush is a war criminal, in more ways than one.
End it now and fix the real problem to save trillions. The real problem is immigration. It’s been a problem for decades. Quite simply we allow the wrong people into America.
Thank god I'm not a Republican
Creepy nazi sounding name. The size of the USMC, and twice the budget. Aimed squarely at the American people.
Abolish it.
DHS is exactly what was predicted. A colossal waste of money. Another giant corps of porn viewing do nothings raping the taxpayers.
AMEN!
Deport the Traitor W too.
I was one of the founders who stood up ICE in 2003 running an Ethics Office on a shoestring. Worked my ass off and finally got the hell out before they ran me into the ground.
“Thank god I’m not a Republican”
United Russia is a bit more your speed anyway.
For once, something we can all agree on
Senator Joe Biden was the asshat that started the patriot act.
Don’t forget it.
Days like this make me wonder how the country would have been if that last plane took out the capitol.
Yup...
Yet another issue that Republicans could win votes by pursuing, and which would be in line with their supposed principles, but which they will never pursue.
Fixed it for them.
Politics is a knee-jerk profession. Bad news makes worse law. Case in point, DHS.
“FBI and CIA should have been able to do what the DHS was tasked to do.”
Ah, but remember, the FBI and CIA couldn’t play well together and share their toys. Interagency competitiveness and all that.
Which I guess some genius decided to solve by adding yet another agency to the competition.
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