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Illegal immigrants, please go away

The federal government has tried almost everything in its various bids to get undocumented immigrants out of the country. Now it's trying something simple and unusual: just asking them to please leave.

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The TSA Follies

"Your safety is our priority," the Transportation Security Administration web site tells us. So how does the TSA explain these four ways it's keeping air travelers unsafe?

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Electric shock for air passengers?

You check in at the airline ticket counter. But instead of a boarding pass, you get shackled with an electronic bracelet which tracks your every move, contains all your personal information, and can shock you senseless. This vision of the future of air security is being floated around the Department of Homeland Security's research and development office.

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Low morale at TSA leads to distraction, attrition

Transportation Security Administration employees have a hard time getting their workplace concerns addressed, despite several agency initiatives, contributing to low morale and one in six screeners quitting their jobs each year, and potentially threatening airline security.

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Government: the man-made disaster

We finally know why the federal government prevented Wal-Mart from delivering water to Hurricane Katrina victims: it was free.

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FEMA: Don’t rely on us after flood

Indiana residents affected by Saturday's flooding shouldn't expect assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency any time soon, and perhaps not at all.

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Bush: Federal contractors’ employees need permission to work

President George W. Bush on Friday signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to verify the employment eligibility status of federal contractors and subcontractors.

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A Global Struggle for Security and Progress

The war on terror could be recast as "A Global Struggle for Security and Progress," according to an internal Department of Homeland Security memo.

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Does FEMA need more power?

When the next hurricane threatens to strike, how will you get the news? For that matter, will you survive? Some want to give the Federal Emergency Management Agency even more authority over disaster response than it already has, even while it struggles to modernize the country's emergency alert system.

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The TSA Follies

Ostensibly the Transportation Security Administration exists to keep Americans safe when they fly. In reality it's a bureaucratic nightmare which never should have been created in the first place. Consider what the TSA has done to pilots and air marshals to put you at risk.

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TSA rules led to pilot’s gun firing in flight

Transportation Security Administration rules are to blame for the conditions leading up to an accidental discharge of a U.S. Airways pilot's pistol during landing, say airline pilots familiar with the program.

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New Hampshire gets REAL ID extension

The Department of Homeland Security has granted an extension to New Hampshire for compliance with the provisions of the federal REAL ID program.

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TSA among most unpopular federal agencies

Santa brought Kip Hawley coal this year, because he's been a very naughty boy.

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TSA can’t find real bombs either

The excuse we hear from the Transportation Security Administration when yet another report comes out finding that its screeners miss the majority of simulated bomb components that testers attempt to bring through airport checkpoints is that the tests are designed to be difficult and nobody would be able to get away with it if they were real bomb components.

Yet investigators with no insider knowledge were able to smuggle real bomb components, sufficient to assemble powerful improvised explosive devices based on liquid explosives, past the TSA at 19 separate airports, according to a report released November 15.

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