“Secure Communities” lets ICE use local police in secret!
Homeland Security Targets “Criminal Aliens”
Thursday 18 February 2010
by: William Fisher, t r u t h o u t | Report
(Photo: r3v || cls)
A little-known program run by the Department of Homeland Security is using inaccurate databases and functioning “as little more than a dragnet to funnel even more people into the already overburdened” detention and deportation system of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, according to three civil rights organizations that have filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Read more
“Anti-Terror” Patrol Planes in Bellingham
The boys are bragging about their new technology! Check it out:
Bellingham (WA) among sites that will get anti-terror patrol planes
From the article from the AP, some of the rationale used to justify this military buildup:
“Someone who could fly a plane full of narcotics in could also fly a plane full of terrorists in, could also fly a plane full of explosive’ in,” Boyd said
And any plane carrying border patrol agents . . .
Military Buildup for Vancouver Olympics?
Check out Alex’s new page with links about lots of military activity here in Western Washington state including aerial surveillance, army helicopters and fighter jets over Port Angeles, and more information on the Olympic Security Coordination Center which “will coordinate the security efforts for over 40 federal, state and local agencies on the U.S. side of the U.S. – Canadian border.”