New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday a plan to install barriers (bollards) to protect “high-profile sites” from attacks, such as the Halloween truck attack that killed eight along a Hudson River bike path. According to the mayor’s office, the city will devote more than $50 million for a broad expansion of protection […]
Terrorism
DHS Enhances Visa Waiver Program Security
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristjen Nielson announced Friday new security enhancements for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The enhancements include requiring participating countries to fully enact information sharing agreements, determine effectiveness against insider threats to aviation, and to implement a public information program in to reduce visa overstays in the United States. “As […]
Elaine Duke Discusses New DHS Counter-WMD Office
The deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) emphasized the real and evolving chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threat as she discussed DHS’s new Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) office Wednesday. Speaking at Hudson Institute in Washington, Elaine Duke emphasized that terrorist groups and rogue states are working to employ CBRN […]
Pipe Bomber Faces Terrorism and Weapons Charges
More information continues to trickle out about failed pipe bomb attacker Akayed Ullah, who was scheduled to face his first court hearing Wednesday after attempting to detonate a bomb at the New York Port Authority bus Terminal on Monday. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, Ullah faces federal terrorism and […]
Trump, Officials, and Opinion Makers Respond to New York Attack
President Donald Trump once again took aim at what he calls America’s “lax immigration system” Monday responding to the pipe bomb attack at the New York City Port Authority. The attack seriously injured the bomber; about four others received minor injuries. “Today’s terror suspect entered our country through extended-family chain migration, which is incompatible with […]