DHS Program Puts Radio Locators on High Risk Aliens Posted on March 7th, 2005 by Jay McKinnon

Stephenson points me to news that DHS is forcing some asylum seekers and other high-risk aliens to wear electronic tracking bracelets. The frame presented by immigration-rights advocates is that this is creeping totalitarianism and an unacceptable attack on civil liberties by a security-obsessed Administration. While I’m (like many Democrats) am [...]
On Chinese Muslims at Guantanmo Posted on November 14th, 2004 by Jay McKinnon

I just heard a report on NPR about a group of Chinese Muslim s who have been in Guantanmo. We’ve decided that they’re no longer a threat. The Chinese government wants us to hand them over so they can try them on terrorism charges. We don’t want to hand them [...]
Bush: The Dem’s Money Maker Posted on November 21st, 2003 by Jay McKinnon

MoveOn.org sent me an email (“The GOP attacks Dems’ patriotism”) asking me to contribute toward a goal of $500K to fight a GOP media campaign implying Democrats support terrorism. The email was sent 11/21 at 1:49pm. I went to the donation page at 4:45pm and the site said they were [...]
Ottawa: DC, We Have a Problem. Posted on November 10th, 2003 by Jay McKinnon

There’s been a few cases of Canadians getting deported to the wrong country hitting the press up north. There was the case of Berna Cruz an Indian-born Canadian who was deported because INS officers in Chicago decided her legitimate Canadian passport was altered or a fake (or something). Then there [...]
What’s up with DHS? Posted on July 11th, 2003 by Jay McKinnon

“Classify my dissertation? Crap. Does this mean I have to redo my PhD?” The Daily KOS does a fine write-up of HREF=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23689-2003Jul7.html?nav=hp top_tb”>this story about a geography PhD student who asked the question “If I were Osama bin Laden, where would I want to attack?” There’s a lesson about the [...]
More Defections from the Whitehouse Posted on June 15th, 2003 by Jay McKinnon

The longer I sat and watched, the more concerned I became, until I got up and walked out. —Rand Beers, counterterrorism official Another high-level government careerist has come out to denounce the Administration’s handling of… well, this time it’s the War on Terrorism. In a Wash ington Post interview [also [...]
From the Senate to HQ to You & I Posted on January 26th, 2003 by Jay McKinnon

A little ammendment in a appropriations bill passed by the US Senate has cut funding to the INS’s ne w special alien registration program. National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) has come under considerable scrutiny after a few of snafus and complaints by targeted communities. The program has had HREF=”http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01 [...]