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Border czar Tom Homan said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports” that deportation operations have begun. Co-host John Roberts said, “So Tom, we were expecting, based on your initial schedule, that today roundups of criminal illegal aliens and the process of deporting them would begin. That seems to have been put on hold for a little while. When can we expect that to happen? Where will it begin?” Homan said, “No, it started. If we start, all these teams are out there as of today. We gave them the direction to prioritize public safety threats that we’re looking for....

SNIPPET: "Social media is no longer simply a fun way to share updates on the harmless idiosyncrasies of our lives. It can undermine national security, and there ought to be a more robust discussion between the Bay Area technology world and Washington on what to do about it. Cyber-terrorism, especially the potential for electronic tampering with U.S. industrial or military installations, is a paramount national security threat that Washington is working to forestall. We're all working to protect our accounts from hackers. But the cyber-threat getting far less public attention involves the social media networks we use every day and the...

Terror mastermind lived in flat under Heathrow approach By Daniel Foggo and Massoud Ansari (Filed: 08/08/2004) An al-Qaeda "communications chief" who is believed to have been co-ordinating a plot to bomb Heathrow spent three weeks living near the airport late last year, the Telegraph can reveal. Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, 25, who is under arrest in Pakistan, lived in a ground floor flat in Reading, Berkshire. The address, on Wensley Road near the centre of town, lies below a western approach flight path to the airport. Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan: reconnaissance He lived there with his grandmother, Batool Begum, and...

Although we didn't think of it in those terms at the time, I now realise that I attended a very multi-racial school. Between the ages of nine and 12, I went to a prep school in Sussex which, possibly short of numbers, recruited heavily abroad. The result was sudden influxes of differing ethnic groups. Thus the sons of members of the ruling True Whig Party in Liberia arrived in a bunch, as did several similarly highly placed Nigerians. This improved our sporting prowess. Several Persians, as everyone then called them, also came. The biggest group were the sons of a...