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Homeland Security’s Plan to Squeeze International Flights

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Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. In early April, shortly after Markwayne Mullin took over the Department of Homeland Security, he floated an idea on Fox News that wasn’t taken seriously; it sounded, in fact, like a proposal from someone very new on the job: Mullin threatened to cut federal screening of international passengers and cargo at airports in cities with “sanctuary” policies, which limit cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Such a move would trigger flight cancellations to airports…

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Battles Are Raging Inside the Department of Homeland Security

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared before a bank of television cameras in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night to blame the man who had been shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis that morning for his own death, claiming without evidence that he had intended “to kill law enforcement” and had been “brandishing” a weapon. Behind her stood the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Rodney Scott, sending a silent message of…

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4 House Republicans Vie to Replace Green as Homeland Security Panel Chairman

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Rep. Mark Green’s sudden retirement from Congress has left a major job opening for his fellow Republicans—replacing the Tennessean as chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Now, with President Donald Trump in office, chairing the committee that deals with immigration issues on a daily basis is an attractive post. On Monday night, the House Republican Steering Committee will elect the next chairman, to replace Green, whose resignation became official Sunday. The following are the four Republicans vying for the job. Clay Higgins of Louisiana Higgins, who currently serves…

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Swords are drawn for the Homeland Security Department’s IG

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The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General, Joseph Cuffari, is hanging onto his job by a thread. He acknowledge in a hearing that he has deleted messages from his government cell phone, which at least two members of Congress say is a violation of federal records laws. They want him to resign. For the latest,   Federal Drive with Tom Temin  spoke with Mitchell Miller, WTOP’s Capitol Hill correspondent. Interview Transcript:  Mitchell Miller Well, the latest is that Democrats had held off for quite a while on actually calling for his resignation.…

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