Liliana Segura, AlterNet. November 24, 2009. Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers last year, and it remains to be proven whether you can spot terrorists by the looks on their faces.
Isabel Macdonald, AlterNet. October 20, 2009. Local community organizers are calling on the DHS to go further in stripping rogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s powers.
Staff, RestoreFairness.org AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. October 9, 2009. This week, DHS unveiled an ambitious plan to reform its immigration detention system.
Staff, America's Voice AlterNet: Immigration. October 6, 2009. Under the program, Arpaio and Arpaio-wannabes in other localities have been given a long leash to target ordinary immigrants.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. November 20, 2008. I guess it's too much to hope that her first order of business will be to defang and rename the creepily fascistic DHS.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 22, 2008. The idea that the government isn't trying to enforce its immigration laws is hogwash -- the problem is that it's all it's doing.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 3, 2008. Current controversy aside, the border "fence" is one of those harebrained schemes that might be funny if it weren't so cynical and racist.