The Trump administration’s announcement Jan. 8 that El Salvador’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) would expire in September 2019 sent ripples across the political spectrum. It reignited a debate that simmered throughout 2017 regarding TPS nations. With this most recent announcement, Homeland411 wanted to take a brief look at TPS, a bit of its history, and […]
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Watch White House Bipartisan Meeting on Immigration
President Donald Trump held a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers at the White House on Tuesday to discuss immigration reform. Watch the meeting here.
Border Apprehensions Hit 45-year Low in 2017
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its final 2017 apprehension numbers for the Southwest on Tuesday. DHS reported a 40 percent drop in apprehensions compared the Obama administration’s last year—a 45 year low for the Border Patrol. DHS reported 303,916 Southwest border apprehensions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, compared to 408,870 in FY 2016. […]
CPUs Vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) released guidance Thursday warning of security vulnerabilities that could impact a computer’s central processing unit (CPU). Named Meltdown and Spectre, the vulnerabilities could allow attackers to obtain sensitive information from computers. “With both variants of the Spectre attack, the impact is that a process may leak sensitive […]
Personal Data on 250,000 DHS Employees Possibly Compromised
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported a “privacy incident” Wednesday that impacts 246,157 current and former DHS employees, as well as individuals connected to DHS Inspector General (IG) investigations from 2002 through 2014. “On May 10, 2017, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by DHS OIG and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, […]