On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to El Paso, Texas, her first trip to the border since taking office. Harris toured the migrant processing center, a US Customs and Border Protection facility, and spoke with five parentless girls from Central America. “They are without their parents. They are also …
Read More »Kamala Harris To Make First Trip To Border As Vice President Friday
Kamala Harris will make her first trip as Vice President to the US-Mexico border on Friday. Vice President Harris is responsible for building strong diplomatic relations to alleviate the border crisis. “Earlier this year, the President asked the Vice President to oversee our diplomatic efforts to address the root causes of …
Read More »Biden Administration Launches Anti-Trafficking Task Force
President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday announced a new anti-trafficking and human smuggling task force operation in the Northern Triangle countries and Mexico. Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the initiative during a joint press conference with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei while in Guatemala on her first official foreign trip. “Transnational human smuggling …
Read More »Garland, Mayorkas: ‘White Supremacist Groups Pose The Greatest Domestic Threat’
Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told the Senate Appropriations Committee that white supremacist groups pose the most serious domestic national security threat in the United States. “Domestic violent extremists pose an elevated threat in 2021 and in the FBI’s view, the top domestic violent extremist …
Read More »Senate Confirms Deanne Criswell As First Woman To Lead FEMA
The Senate confirmed Deanne Criswell to be the next administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency by unanimous consent Thursday. Criswell is the first woman to lead FEMA since its creation in 1979. “I congratulate Deanne Criswell on her historic confirmation to lead the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency …
Read More »Cabinet Profiles: Alejandro Mayorkas: Secretary of Homeland Security
The first hearings for President-elect Joe Biden‘s Cabinet nominations begin today. We will hear testimony from his picks to lead all of his cabinet positions over the next several weeks. We will profile the nominees in advance of their hearings so our readers will have some background information as the …
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