[JustTheNews] The report published Monday by the watchdog office warned that the deficiency—which includes limited authority and poor understanding of procedures—could result in "unnecessary injury or loss of life" in the event of a physical threat.
The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General found that Federal Protective Service Protective Security Officers, the key force responsible for security in federal buildings, were often unprepared to deal with physical threats, like active shooters or other attacks.
The report published Monday by the watchdog office warned that the deficiency—which includes limited authority and poor understanding of procedures—could result in "unnecessary injury or loss of life" in the event of a physical threat at the federal buildings guarded by the force.
During several post visits from 2019 to 2022, inspectors found the officers in different buildings did not always know proper procedures, like how to respond to active shooters or bomb threats. Additionally, investigators found the officers did not always have the required equipment to respond to physical threats, noting missing weapons or gear on some site visits.
The inspector general also warned that federal regulations often prevent officers from actively responding to a threat and instead require that they wait for and take orders from other law enforcement.
The assessment comes as Americans are increasingly concerned about political violence both before and after the contentious 2024 presidential election. New polling data finds 4 in 10 Americans are specifically concerned about potentially violent attempts to overturn the results of the election.
The watchdog office recommended that the Federal Protective Service implement "training and supervisory monitoring" to improve the officers' knowledge.
[FoxNews] A bill by Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., would shut down a slew of Biden-era moves to allow migrants into the U.S. or to be protected from deportation, as Republicans look to a potential political upheaval next year to change the direction of U.S. immigration policy.
Banks is introducing the End Executive Branch Amnesty Act, which would take aim at the Biden administration’s use of humanitarian parole to allow migrants into the U.S., and to limit the use of Temporary Protected Status to protect them from deportation.
The Biden administration, as part of its efforts to expand lawful pathways for migration to curb the ongoing migrant crisis at the border, has used parole to allow in 1,450 migrants a day using the CBP One app at the border. It has also allowed over 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela into the U.S. to fly into the U.S. using a separate program.
The Biden administration says those programs have worked to limit migration and provide an orderly process at the border. Republicans have claimed that the moves represent an abuse of parole to allow in otherwise inadmissible foreign nationals. The CHNV program was briefly paused after DHS found evidence of fraud from sponsors.
"It is a key element of our efforts to address the unprecedented level of migration throughout our hemisphere, and other countries around the world see it as a model to tackle the challenge of increased irregular migration that they too are experiencing," Homeland Security Secretary Alejando Mayorkas said earlier this year.
Separately, the Biden administration has used Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to allow migrants from countries facing conflict and hardship to remain protected from deportation, including countries like Venezuela and Haiti.
Critics have pointed to towns like Charleroi, Pa., Springfield, Ohio, and Logansport, Indiana as examples of parts of the country that have struggled with an influx of migrants who have been paroled.
Banks’ bill would restrict TPS designations by requiring Congress to approve them for 12 month terms, and requiring additional moves by Congress to extend them.
The bill would also limit parole to a hard cap of 1,000 a year, significantly reduced from the hundreds of thousands allowed currently. Parole would also only be allowed for limited circumstances like emergency medical cases.
The bill would also impose stricter eligibility and placement criteria for unaccompanied children amid reports of UACs being lost track of by authorities. Meanwhile, the use of DHS documents like Notices to Appear and CBP One app would be barred from being used for airport security checks.
While the bill would face a tough challenge in a Democratic-controlled Senate and would almost certainly be vetoed by President Biden or Harris, the bill would likely draw significant support in Republican-controlled chambers and executives.
"The Biden-Harris administration has abused the laws on the books to grant millions of non-citizens legal status. Republicans must restore our immigration system to Congress’s original intent and ensure parole is only used as a last-ditch humanitarian measure to help foreign nationals in times of catastrophe," Banks said in a statement.
Banks mentioned Logansport, which is in his state of Indiana, and which has seen an estimated 5,000 Haitian migrants in a few years -- in addition to the millions who have crossed the southern border.
The bill comes with days left before Election Day, and with Vice President Harris and former President Trump dueling over who is the better candidate for border security and immigration. Harris has pointed to a recent but sharp drop in border encounters under the Biden administration and has hammered Trump for failing to back a bipartisan security bill to increase funding for the border. Trump claims that the border crisis is due to the Biden administration's rolling back of his policies, and has promised to restore many of them and launch a campaign of mass deportation.
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If Republicans take over both houses of Congress on Jan. 3, the most straightforward thing they could is impeach both Biden and Kamala for the "high crime" and/or "misdemeanor" of the regime's border fiasco. Just railroad it through.
[Jpost] In the wake of Israel passing two bills that essentially block the activity of the UN Relief and Works Agency in areas under Israeli control, UNRWA’s work is under scrutiny.
Many circles worldwide have condemned Israel’s actions. UNRWA is a "lifeline," the UK says. UNRWA has claimed Israel’s vote is against the UN "charter." The organization is "irreplaceable," the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday.
What is most interesting about UNRWA is that the organization exists at all. Established by a UN General Assembly resolution in 1949, it began its work in 1950 toward providing direct relief and work programs for "Palestine refugees" — meaning, at the time, the hundreds of thousands of Arabs who had fled the fighting in British Mandate Palestine and, later, areas that became part of the State of Israel in 1948.
...The UN stepped in to try to help the situation. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established only in 1950, essentially meaning that the UN’s focus on Palestinian refugees predates its interest in other refugees around the world.
This largely explains why the Palestinian refugees became a unique issue and how the UN ended up perpetuating their refugee status and essentially adopting the Palestinians as a singular cause.
What has UNRWA done since its founding? The organization has 58 recognized refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, and Gaza. Since UNRWA’s establishment, the number of "refugees" has increased. Today, for example, there are some 900,000 registered "refugees" in the 19 UNRWA camps in the West Bank.
The UN estimates that around one-third of the overall number of people considered "refugees" live in the 58 camps, meaning that many of them have moved to towns and other areas. In some cases, such as in Lebanon, they are often restricted to the camps.
UNRWA maintains not only the camps but also a large number of facilities linked to the camps and refugees. For instance, UNRWA says it has 155 facilities in Gaza, where it enabled 1.5 million internally displaced people to shelter in January 2024. There are eight refugee camps in Gaza; the Khan Yunis camp, for example, has almost 100,000 people registered in it.
IT’S WORTH thinking of UNRWA not as the organization it was after its founding, when it provided essential services that were actually needed, but rather as the empire of perpetual suffering that it has become.
This is a crucial point; UNRWA, as an organization, including the refugees it deals with, is larger than approximately 80 of the countries that are members of the UN. Despite the good intentions that may have been behind its creation in 1950, UNRWA has transformed into something entirely different. The only reason to maintain an organization like UNRWA, which keeps millions of people dependent, is to use them as a proxy against Israel.
In retrospect, it’s important to look at UNRWA as an organization that was created to thwart the establishment of Israel. The UN approved the Partition Plan for British Mandate Palestine in 1947. Israel declared independence in 1948.
...The concept of UNRWA is to keep Palestinians dependent, living in refugee camps generation after generation, while using its young men as foot soldiers to fight Israel. Winding down the camps and having the people live normal lives and believe in two states and peace could have potentially resulted in peace. However, the UNRWA mandate was never to embrace peace, two states, and coexistence. (a) Anyone who really cares about "Palestinian Refugees" would work toward them building new lives in their places of refuge.
(b) There was an equivalent number of Jewish refugees from the Arab world.
The UN, however, did very little to help the Jewish refugees — the world Jewish community and Israel funded and handled their resettlement in Israel on their own.
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I’m confident UNWRA staff and management would be perfectly happy if the conflict ended because Israel was erased — that’s what they’ve been training their refugees for, after all.
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in Australia, the Greens party panders to the Muslim vote and supports UNRWA. As a taxpayer, my money is forcibly taken off me and sent to them because the Greens and Teal independents voted to ensure we didn't cut their funding even after they were found to be helping Hamas (Muslim Brotherhood)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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