Department of Homeland Security
America's safety agency
The Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet-level agency of the United States federal government responsible for border control, immigration enforcement, cybersecurity, and disaster response.
Created after the September 11, 2001 attacks, it consolidated twenty-two existing agencies including the Secret Service, Coast Guard, and newly formed Transportation Security Administration.
Often abbreviated DHS: DHS issued a terrorism advisory.
- Federal Bureau of InvestigationNational criminal investigation agency
- counterterrorismCombating organized political violence
- terror watch listRegistry of suspected threats
- Patriot ActCounterterrorism surveillance legislation
- border wallStructure dividing adjacent territories
Coast Guard · Central Intelligence Agency · FEMA · natural disaster · cybersecurity · immigration enforcement · green card · see something say something · first responders · Secret Service · 9/11 · emergency response teams · visa processing
Department of Homeland SecurityDepartment of Defense
U.S. military administration
Department of State · CIA · State Department · National Security Agency · military
Department of Homeland SecurityACLU
Advocacy group for constitutional protections
civil liberties · open borders · freedom of movement · privacy rights · due process
Department of Homeland SecurityISIS
Levantine jihadist organization
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