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DHS employee behind racist website on paid leave

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**FILE** Illegal immigrants prepare to enter a bus after being processed at the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector headquarters on Aug. 9, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)

Labor union chief calls immigration bill dangerous, sees agency as ‘approval machine’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Razor wire sits atop a border fence as a building in the Mexican border city of Tijuana sits behind, as seen from San Diego on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

Independent study raises the bar for border security, immigration reform

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 18, 2013, before the House Homeland Security Committee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama’s immigrant deportation numbers tell different stories in interior, on border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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Immigration bill bans racial profiling by federal law enforcement

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama, accompanied by members of his Cabinet, speaks about superstorm Sandy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. With him are (from second from the left) Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Congress investigates DHS ammo purchase

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Razor wire sits atop a border fence as a building in the Mexican border city of Tijuana sits behind, as seen from San Diego on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

New GOP bill gives administration two years to secure the borders

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this April 25, 2012, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Secret Service prostitution scandal. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Watch out for ‘government’ e-mail scams, Homeland Security warns

By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian

In this undated photo, immigrants walk to hearings at the Stewart Detention Center in Lupmkin, Georgia. (Associated Press/Atlanta Journal-Constitution) **FILE**

DHS released more than 2,000 immigrants

By Alicia A. Caldwell - Associated Press

Sen. Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat (Associated Press)

U.S. ordered delay in arrest of Menendez intern

By Alicia A. Caldwell - Associated Press

Rep. Lamar Smith (Associated Press)

Homeland Security postpones stricter driver’s license rules

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat (Associated Press)

Feds arrest illegal immigrant Senate intern

By Alicia A. Caldwell - Associated Press

Terrorism fight included buying a hog catcher

By Alicia A. Caldwell - Associated Press

An armored vehicle like the ones Homeland Security Department grants have helped buy for various urban communities. This vehicle belongs to Montgomery County, Maryland, which declined to say Tuesday whether it used Homeland funding to help underwrite the cost. Photo courtesy of Sen. Tom Coburn's office.

Senator slams Homeland program for wasteful, frivolous spending

By John Solomon - Washington Guardian

Past disaster audits show taxpayers risk being fleeced during Sandy cleanup

By John Solomon and Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian

**FILE** Immigrants applying for driver's licenses wait at the doors of the Beltsville, Md., branch of Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration in 2006. (The Washington Times)

States make fake IDs quick and easy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** The apartment complex in New Brunswick, N.J., where an apartment was rented by an undercover NYPD officer is seen here on July 13, 2011. On June 2, 2009, a building superintendent at the complex just off the Rutgers University campus called 911 after stumbling one of the NYPD's biggest secrets — a safe house, a place where undercover officers working well outside the department's jurisdiction could lay low and coordinate surveillance. (Associated Press)

See something, say something, uncover NYPD spying

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

"We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results," said Rep. Candice S. Miller, Michigan Republican. (Associated Press)

House orders solid base line on border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks April 26, 2012, during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

House moves ahead with cybersecurity bill

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

House OKs cybersecurity bill despite veto threat

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press