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The acting secretary of Homeland Security removed the Coast Guard commandant from her position, according to a message to the service reviewed by USNI News. An ALCOAST, which is a message to all members of the Coast Guard, announced the relief of Adm. Linda Fagan to the service. The message did not give a reason for Fagan’s removal.

SALT LAKE CITY — The second of two special agents with the Department of Homeland Security in Utah tasked with fighting the war on drugs has been charged in federal court with putting drugs right back on the street by selling drugs to dealers. Felony information was filed Monday against Nicholas Kindle, accusing him of conspiracy to convert property of the U.S. government and conspiracy to distribute drugs. In December, a 27-page criminal complaint was unsealed against David Cole, 50, of South Jordan, for conspiracy to distribute and possess drugs with intent to distribute. The federal complaint also listed an...

President Trump called out former Republican Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge on Twitter Thursday. According to CNN the former Homeland Security secretary says he doesn’t think President Trump should bring federal agents to cities with protests. In the tweet Trump said, “Recently watched failed RINO Tom Ridge, former head of Homeland Security, trying to justify his sudden love of the Radical Left Mayor of Portland, who last night was booed & shouted out of existence by the agitators & anarchists. Love watching pathetic Never Trumpers squirm!”

Brownstone Institute has been tracking a little-known federal agency for years. It is part of the Department of Homeland Security created after 9-11. It is called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA. It was created in 2018 out of a 2017 executive order that seemed to make sense. It was a mandate to secure American digital infrastructure against foreign attack and infiltration. And yet during the Covid year, it assumed three huge jobs. It was the agency responsible for dividing the workforce between essential and nonessential. It led the way on censorship efforts. And it handled election security...

President-elect Donald Trump has been aggressively rolling out his picks to serve in his Cabinet and other top roles. Thursday was no different as he focused on picks that would work hard to secure the border and carry out a mass deportation operation. Trump added nominees for homeland security and immigration, naming Rodney Scott as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Caleb Vitello as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Tony Salisbury to be Deputy Homeland Security Advisor (White House Homeland Security Council). Scott is a former Border Patrol chief who served as chief from...

The vicious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua has expanded its territory to at least 16 US states — an area that includes half of America’s population, The Post has learned. Homeland Security officials last week were warned in an internal department intelligence memo about TdA’s growing presence across the country, most recently in Washington, DC, Virginia, Montana and Wyoming. The gang already has footholds in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, according to the memo and previous reporting by The Post. The gang has only increased its “violent...

A federal disaster relief official ordered workers to bypass the homes of Donald Trump’s supporters as they surveyed damage caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, according to internal correspondence obtained by The Daily Wire and confirmed by multiple federal employees. A FEMA supervisor told workers in a message to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid, internal messages viewed by The Daily Wire reveal. The supervisor, Marn’i Washington, relayed this message both verbally and in a group chat used by the relief team, multiple government employees told The...

A leaked membership list suggests that Oath Keepers have infiltrated the Department of Homeland Security. More than 300 members of the paramilitary group describe themselves as current or former DHS employees. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Just weeks after Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for trying to violently overturn the 2020 election, a leak of the paramilitary group's membership list has revealed that potentially hundreds of far-right extremists have infiltrated federal law enforcement, the Project on Government Oversight reported on Monday. Launched in 2009, the Oath Keepers from the start...

https://atlanta.afceachapters.org/2024-homeland-security-critical-infrastructure-conference “AFCEA Atlanta Homeland Security Conference on Critical Infrastructure November 6-7 , 2024 with a large-scale tabletop cybersecurity exercise on November 5, 2024 AFCEA Atlanta is proud to announce our Fourth Annual Homeland Security Conference is back for 2024! This will be a multi-day event focused on critical infrastructure, with a pre-conference cybersecurity exercise open to registrants who want to observe or participate.”

Remember when we were told that, while FEMA has run out of money for relief to those in dire need in NC, this is posted on their website:For Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will provide $640.9 million of available funds to enable non-federal entities to off-set allowable costs incurred for services associated with noncitizen migrant arrivals in their communities. This comes from FEMA's own website. Would those spokespeople lie to us?

A United Nations agency expressed “profound concern” on Monday over the Biden administration’s updated asylum restrictions along the U.S-Mexico border. ...the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) condemned the move in a public statement and called on the White House to reconsider....Matthew Reynolds, UNHCR Representative to the U.S. and the Caribbean, stated. “The regulation severely curtails access to protection for people fleeing conflict, persecution, and violence...Limiting or blocking such access is a violation of international refugee law and the humanitarian principles...” Biden on Monday tweaked the threshold at which the partial asylum ban would be deactivated...deactivating the asylum restrictions...

(The Center Square) – Retired San Diego Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke said he was instructed by the Biden administration to not publicize arrests of illegal border crossers identified as “Significant Interest Aliens” with ties to terrorism. Heitke testified before a U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Wednesday... “We had an exponential increase in Significant Interest Aliens … with significant ties to terrorism,” illegally entering in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection San Diego Sector, he said.... “At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIA’s or mention...

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 🚨According to Congressman Matt Gaetz, the Department of Homeland Security knows of at least FIVE assassination teams currently in the US that are targeting President Trump. Gaetz says a senior official at the DHS confirmed these details and added, "At least three of which are foreign that are out to kill Trump."

The Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations cannot answer if her agency declined to investigate would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh!

Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ BREAKING: Biden-Harris DHS has designated the Electoral College vote count + certification process as a "National Special Security Event" to prevent another Jan. 6, and has assigned the Secret Service to coordinate and implement a "comprehensive security plan" to respond to riots 10:27 AM · Sep 12, 2024

On July 13, 2024, President Trump was shot in the ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks, was seen staking out the area before the assassination attempt. Crooks somehow was able to carry a gun up on the roof, jump from roof to roof on two buildings, walk around on top of the roof, and then crawl up the metal roof before he started firing at President Trump. Several Trump supporters were standing nearby screaming at police to take action, who did nothing before Crooks started firing off eight shots at the former president. Since...

Whistleblower reveals Homeland Security Agents protecting Trump at Butler, PA rally were ONLY GIVEN A 2 HOUR ONLINE TRAINING, pulled from child exploitation cases and pushed to his protective detail.

Who authorized this? A man impersonating a Secret Service agent was spotted at a JD Vance event in Detroit, Michigan on August 7. A man who is not a Secret Service agent was spotted wearing a Secret Service patch on an armored vest issued by another federal agency. RealClearInvestigations reporter Susan Crabtree presented the photo to the Secret Service and they confirmed the man was improperly wearing a Secret Service patch.

In a bombshell revelation, whistleblowers within Homeland Security have accused the agency of actively retaliating against them for exposing a systemic failure to comply with a federal DNA collection law. The whistleblowers have risked their careers to reveal that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a division of DHS, has systematically failed to collect the DNA of illegal immigrants as mandated by the DNA Fingerprint Act. This law, passed in 2005 with bipartisan support, mandates the collection of DNA samples from non-U.S. persons detained for immigration violations. This failure has allowed violent criminals to evade detection and commit further crimes...

An eyewitness who was detained by the police on the day of the Trump assassination attempt has come forward with explosive claims. The witness claims that during his time in police custody, he overheard alarming details on police radios that were not disclosed to the public. The witness, who goes by the name Dave James Stewart or “realDJStew724” on YouTube, claims to have overheard police discussing the presence of blood in a bathroom and a potential second shooter on the loose.