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Homeland Security's Enemy Next Door

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Americas Program Commentary Homeland Security's Enemy Next Door Tom Barry | June 10, 2008 What began as a war on terrorists has become a war on immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security says that it prioritizes its immigration enforcement actions by "targeting the greatest national security and public safety threats"?an approach not taken prior to 9/11. At home, like abroad, the war on terrorism has lost its focus. Faced with failure, the Bush administration's stated resolve to dismantle international terrorism has devolved into an attack on a far more vulnerable and proximate target?Latin American immigrants. President George W. Bush has asked for a 6.8% increase in Homeland Security's 2009 budget, while the department's immigration enforcement operations will receive a 19...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).