Homeland Security

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  1. Homeland Defense and Homeland Security Studies - Links to mostly government and military websites related to homeland security, created for military members by the Air War College.
  2. USA PATRIOT Act - Bill summary, status and full text, from the Library of Congress.
  3. Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Encourages local communities to take an active role in an ongoing national debate about antiterrorism measures, such as the USA Patriot Act, that threaten civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Features news, suggested actions, tools, impact of recent regulations, proposed legislation and a newsletter.
  4. Ted Koppel On The Dangers Of The Patriot Act - Offers a partial transcript from Ted Koppel's interview with representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Justice Department.
  5. Odd Bedfellows Fall in Line - "Opposition to the Patriot Act creates unusual political alignments." [The Christian Science Monitor] (October 29, 2003)
  6. A Guide to the Patriot Act - Article describes the legislation, how it has been implemented and support and opposition to it. By Dahlia Lithwick and Julia Turner in Slate. (September 08, 2003)
  7. Curtailing Online Education in the Name of Homeland Security - The USA PATRIOT Act, SEVIS, and international students in the United States. [First Monday] (September 01, 2003)
  8. The Impact of the USA PATRIOT Act: An Update - Civil liberties analysis from The Free Expression Policy Project. (August 27, 2003)
  9. Patriot Act Abuses Seen - A report by internal investigators at the Justice Department has identified dozens of recent cases in which department employees have been accused of serious civil rights and civil liberties violations involving enforcement of the sweeping federal antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act. [CBS News] (July 21, 2003)
  10. The Price of Freedom - "If the Patriot Act took our liberties away, would we notice?" Slate commentary by Michael Kinsley. (June 12, 2003)
  11. Justice Dept. Lists Use of New Power to Fight Terror - "In the most detailed public accounting of how it had used its expanded powers to fight terrorism, the Justice Department released information today showing that federal agents had conducted hundreds of bugging and surveillance operations and visited numerous libraries and mosques using new law enforcement tools." [New York Times] (May 20, 2003)
  12. Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent - New York Times article reports that some Congressmen want to repeal the Patriot Act's sunset provisions, but others oppose sacrificing civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism. [Requires free registration.] (April 09, 2003)
  13. The Patriot Act - Discussion of the act's effect on civil liberties. [PBS NewsHour] (February 24, 2003)
  14. University Bans Controversial Links - The University of California at San Diego has ordered a student organization to delete hyperlinks to an alleged terrorist Web site, citing the recently enacted USA Patriot Act. [CNet] (September 26, 2002)
  15. PATRIOT Games - Comments about surveillance powers, by Derek Jennings. [The Independent Weekly] (November 07, 2001)

16.  Official website

17.  U.S. Immigration And Customs Enforcement Bureau Meeting Notices and Rule Changes from The Federal Register

18.  Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

19.  HSI-ICE & DSS: Authorities Bust Strip Club Operation that Illegally Employed Hundreds

20.  "ICE Office of Detention and Removal (ERO) ICE Detention and Deportation Officer Conrad Agagan". Ice.gov. January 1, 1970. http://www.ice.gov/careers/facesofice/conradagagan.htm. Retrieved September 27, 2010.[dead link]

21.  James Gilbert – Sun staff writer (2011 01 03). "5 in Somerton arrested in national gang sweep, ice, gang, gangs". Yuma Sun. http://www.yumasun.com/news/ice-68073-gang-gangs.html. Retrieved 2011 03 03.

22.  "Advocates Condemn Obama Administration's Expansion of DHS's Failed 287(g) Program – Center for Media Justice". pitchengine.com. July 17, 2009. http://www.pitchengine.com/centerformediajustice/advocates-condemn-obama-administrations-expansion-of-dhss-failed-287g-program/18629/. Retrieved September 27, 2010.

23.  Fowler White Boggs P.A. (February 14, 2012). "New ICE Measures to Protect Aliens Detained by Local Law Enforcement". The National Law Review. http://www.natlawreview.com/article/new-ice-measures-to-protect-aliens-detained-local-law-enforcement. Retrieved September 27, 2012.

24.  Bernstein, Nina. "In-Custody Deaths". New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration_detention_us/incustody_deaths/index.html. Retrieved May 26, 2010.

25.  "TheNation.com". TheNation.com. December 16, 2009. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100104/stevens. Retrieved September 27, 2010.

26.  Nina Bernstein (January 10, 2010). "Officials Hid Truth About Immigrant Deaths in Jail". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/us/10detain.html. Retrieved January 10, 2010.

27.  Nina Bernstein (May 5, 2008). "Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in Custody". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/nyregion/05detain.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved January 10, 2010.

28.  "Documents: Deaths in Immigration Detention". The New York Times. January 10, 2010. http://documents.nytimes.com/deaths-in-immigration-detention#p=29. Retrieved January 10, 2010.

29.  Nina Bernstein (June 26, 2007). "Deaths of immigrants in U.S. held for deportation spark scrutiny". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/world/americas/26iht-immig.4.6342462.html. Retrieved January 10, 2010.

30.  Misusing immigration policies in the name of homeland security

31.  Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2010

32.  Forfeiting Enduring Freedom for Homeland Security: A Constitutional Analysis of the USA Patriot Act and the Justice Department's Anti-Terrorism Initiatives

33.  Race, immigration, and the department of homeland security

34.  Changing homeland security: What is homeland security?

35.  The USA Patriot Act: A Sketch

36.  Bringing out the big guns: the USA patriot act, money laundering, and the war on terrorism

37.  Repeal the USA Patriot Act

Patriot Act

1.  Patriot Hysteria — The Zacarias Moussaoui Protection Act, article by Rich Lowry, National Review

2.  The Patriot Act under Fire by law professors John Yoo and Eric Posner, December 23, 2003

3.  The Patriot Act, Reauthorized, JURIST

4.  PATRIOT Games: Terrorism Law and Executive Power, JURIST

5.  American Library Association's Resolution on the PATRIOT Act

6.  "War on Terror" Human Rights Issues Amnesty International USA

7.  Beware of the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act" by activist group ReclaimDemocracy.org

8.  Electronic Frontier Foundation's detailed analysis of the Act, October 27, 2003

9.  Statement Of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold On The Anti-Terrorism Bill, October 25, 2001

10.  Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties?, by Richard Stallman, September 17, 2001

11.  Analysis of the USA PATRIOT Act: PEN American Center

Academic Search Premiere Articles

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  1. "DUE PROCESS - IMMIGRATION DETENTION - THIRD CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM AND IMMIGRANT RESPONSIBILITY ACT OF 1996 AUTHORIZES IMMIGRATION DETENTION ONLY FOR A "REASONABLE PERIOD OF TIME." - Diop V. ICE/Homeland Security, 656 F.3D.." Harvard Law Review 125.6 (2012): 1522-1529. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=74313919&site=ehost-live
  2. Hamilton, Kimberly R. "Immigrant Detention Centers In The United States And International Human Rights Law." Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 21.(2011): 93-132. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013.
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    Alden, Edward. "Immigration And Border Control." CATO Journal 32.1 (2012): 107-124. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=70924526&site=ehost-live
  4. Androff, David K., and Kyoko Y. Tavassoli. "Deaths In The Desert: The Human Rights Crisis On The U.S.-Mexico Border." Social Work 57.2 (2012): 165-173. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=79818131&site=ehost-live
  5. Coleman, Mathew. "What Counts As The Politics And Practice Of Security, And Where? Devolution And Immigrant Insecurity After 9/11." Annals Of The Association Of American Geographers 99.5 (2009): 904-913. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=45141433&site=ehost-live
  6. Camacho, Alicia Schmidt. "Hailing The Twelve Million." Social Text 28.4 (2010): 1-24. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=57755415&site=ehost-live
  7. Miller, Todd. "Arizona, The Anti-Immigrant Laboratory." NACLA Report On The Americas 43.4 (2010): 3-4. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=52343009&site=ehost-live
  8. Cole, David. "The Missing Patriot Debate." Nation 280.21 (2005): 18-21. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=17018978&site=ehost-live
  9. Cole, David. "9/11 And The LA 8." Nation 277.13 (2003): 5-6. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11064494&site=ehost-live
  10. Sekhon, Vijay. "The Civil Rights Of "Others": Antiterrorism, The Patriot Act, And Arab And South Asian American Rights In Post-9/11 American Society." Texas Journal On Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 8.1 (2003): 117. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=10969062&site=ehost-live
  11. Hines, Barbara. "An Overview Of U.S. Immigration Law And Policy Since 9/11." Texas Hispanic Journal Of Law & Policy 12.1 (2006): 9-28. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=21832572&site=ehost-live
  12. Stewart, Kendall B. "Patriot Act unpatriotic." New York Amsterdam News 17 July 2003: 13. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=10345685&site=ehost-live
  13. Cole, David. "Justice Delayed." Nation 03 Dec. 2007: 4+. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=27503886&site=ehost-live
  14. Quiroz-Martínez, Julie. "Let Freedom Roll." Nation 277.13 (2003): 13-17. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11064502&site=ehost-live
  15. Buderi, Robert. "The Patriot Act: A Visitor's Tale." Technology Review 107.2 (2004): 8. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=12324416&site=ehost-live
  16. Kevles, Daniel J. "Biotech's Big Chill ." Technology Review 106.6 (2003): 41. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=10055524&site=ehost-live
  17. Cohen, Adam, and Viveca Novak. "Immigration." Time 158/159.28/1 (2001): 130. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=5742946&site=ehost-live
  18. Packer, George. "Keep Out." New Yorker 82.33 (2006): 59-60. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=22663145&site=ehost-live
  19. Gravois, John. "Tariq Ramadan Loses U.S. Visa-Denial Case." Chronicle Of Higher Education 54.18 (2008): A15. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=28393919&site=ehost-live
  20. Pike, George H. "A Safer USA PATRIOT Act?." Information Today 21.6 (2004): 17-20. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=13298546&site=ehost-live
  21. Rosen, Jeffrey. "Prevent Defense." New Republic 231.10 (2004): 16-18. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=14267501&site=ehost-live
  22. Adas, Jane. "New York Congressman Nadler Calls USA PATRIOT Act Extreme Danger To Civil Rights." Washington Report On Middle East Affairs 21.6 (2002): 57. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=7252661&site=ehost-live
  23. Weinstock, Karen. "Why Close The Door?." Technology Review 107.4 (2004): 10. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=12952979&site=ehost-live
  24. McArthur, Shirl. "Letters Show Depth Of Anti-Palestinian Sentiment In Congress." Washington Report On Middle East Affairs 21.4 (2002): 32. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=6797068&site=ehost-live
  25. Welch, Matt. "Terror In Nebraska." Reason 37.10 (2006): 10. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=19712125&site=ehost-live
  26. T. Linh, Ho. "The Impact Of National Security And Civil Liberties On The Asian American And Pacific Islander Community: An Interview With U.S. Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA)." Asian American Policy Review 13.(2004): 9-13. Academic Search Premier. Web. 8 Feb. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=15320857&site=ehost-live

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