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According to David Rittgers, DHS fusion centers do little more than label anyone who is critical of the federal government as a potential terrorist. Rittgers reports that DHS analysts are "labeling broad swaths of the public as a threat to national security."
With the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act, these reports may be seen by the public as potentially disconcerting now that persons deemed as "terrorists" may now be militarily detained without charges or trial. The basic eradication of due process makes the powers, scrutiny, and judgments of the DHS that much more intimidating for citizens already suspicious of tyranny in the federal government.
Today the DHS is focusing its attention ever-increasingly on border patrol. The DHS Press Office stated in February, 2013, that the Obama Administration "has dedicated historic levels of personnel, technology, and resources to the Southwest border, and undertaken an unprecedented effort to transform our nation's immigration enforcement systems into one that focuses on public safety, border security, and the integrity of the immigration system."
While this statement might suggest that the DHS is appealing to conservatives who want to see tighter security along the border, critics of the Obama Administration still refuse to see this latest press release as anything other than a sophistic attempt to make DHS bureaucracy seem effective, legitimate and relevant.
In conclusion, the Office and Department of Homeland Security was established in reaction to 9/11. Its initiatives may be seen at airports around the nation, where automated...
Its bureaucratic channels have been criticized for bumbling disaster response initiatives like 2005's response to Hurricane Katrina. Its analysts have been criticized for labeling anyone a potential threat to national security who expresses radical criticism of government policy. The DHS wields a significant amount of oversight of various agencies, but in the end it may be just one more information gathering agency in a field already saturated with them.
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