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I speak regularly with dedicated men and women who work for the Department of Homeland Security, and especially agents from across the country who work for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
I can tell you based on my reporting over the last five years that the Bush administration’s belated efforts to look tough on [...]

This is a wake-up call to the White House.
In an election-year repudiation of President Bush, a House panel dominated by Republicans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to block a Dubai-owned firm from taking control of some U.S port operations.
By 62-2, the Appropriations Committee voted to bar DP World, run by the government of Dubai in the [...]

The parent company of Dubai Ports World participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post reports in an exclusive today (hat tip Thomas Rosser):
“Yes, of course the boycott is still in place and is still enforced,” Muhammad Rashid a-Din, a staff member of the Dubai Customs Department’s Office for the Boycott of Israel, [...]

A serious, pro-enforcement measure on border security and immigration control has just passed the House. Three years after I published Invasion, many of the policy recommendations included in the book have been embraced:
The House acted Friday to stem the tide of illegal immigration by taking steps to tighten border controls and stop unlawful immigrants from [...]

More bloody consequences of lax immigration enforcement…from Dallas, Tx., via the Dallas Morning News:
Marta Cruz had told police that her ex-boyfriend had been threatening her for weeks.
But as he emptied his handgun in an act of rage early Sunday, police say, his last bullet found another victim.
Dallas police Officer Brian Jackson died of a gunshot [...]

***scroll down for 9/1 updates…gun defenses tracked…***

The mayor of New Orleans has declared martial law, reports the WWL blog. I’ve covered the uncertainties surrounding this question several times over the past few days. Mike Wiser at Brendan Loy’s blog writes:
We’ve had conflicting reports about martial law over the past few days, with some commenters stating [...]

The story gets weirder and weirder. Now, the FBI has added the names of 10 Chinese to the list of those being sought for questioning about a possible terror plot targeting Boston.
MartiniPundit took note of some oddities regarding the Chinese suspects here. Meanwhile, an anonymous law enforcement source told AP:
[T]he tip was received Wednesday by [...]

^&*$%#@$%^#!
Sorry for the spleen-venting so early in the morning, but read this from the AP, headlined “Bush wants intelligence bill free of immigration provisions:”
The White House yesterday asked Congress to reject an attempt in the House to place illegal-immigration measures in an intelligence reform bill.
The Bush administration wants “an effective bill that both Houses can [...]

9:45ish: Finally, finally! Bob Schieffer asks about illegal immigration…but both candidates bomb.
Bush’s perfunctory reference to how he has sprinkled a few more Border Patrol agents across the southern border glosses over the horrendous policies instituted under his Department of Homeland Security that have resulted in undermining those agents. As I noted recently:
When a mobile [...]

The Washington Times reports on an alleged meeting between suspected al Qaeda operative Adnan Shukrijumah and the savage El Salvador-based gang, Mara Salvatrucha:
A top al Qaeda lieutenant has met with leaders of a violent Salvadoran criminal gang with roots in Mexico and the United States — including a stronghold in the Washington area — in [...]

You’ve heard about the two men who were busted for allegedly plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station. You may not have heard that one of the men, Shahawar Matin Siraj, a 22-year-old Pakistani national living in Jackson Heights, New York, had run into problems with immigration authorities.
According to this article, Siraj was “jailed [...]

My latest syndicated column is up: The dangerous game of catch-and-release. Following up on a post I wrote last week, I interviewed New Ipswich, New Hampshire, police chief Garrett Chamberlain, who blew the whistle on federal immigration authorities when they refused to take ten admitted illegal aliens into custody. Officials told Chamberlain to let the [...]

Sens. Judd Gregg and John Sununu of New Hampshire have discovered the feds’ old catch-and-release game…not with fish, but with illegal aliens. The Union Leader reports:
[Gregg and Sununu] want to know why federal immigration officials decided not to step in when New Ipswich police stopped a van carrying nine illegal aliens this week.
New Ipswich Police [...]