The Homeland Security Department’s beleaguered watchdog might close a troubled Texas office amid a federal probe into its agents’ investigative practices.
In issuing its first new national strategy in eight years, the U.S. Border Patrol acknowledged this week an embarrassing but serious concern within its ranks: corruption.
Facing an overwhelming backlog of corruption probes, the Department of Homeland Security's watchdog agency will unload almost half of its investigations of employees suspected of wrongdoing, officials said last week.
A former chief of intelligence for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pleaded guiltytodayto embezzlement charges stemming from a travel voucher fraud and kickback scheme that has cost the government more than $600,000.
More than 670 service members from California have died in the combined Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The state continues to lead the nation in fatalities in the conflicts, according to an analysis of the most recent Defense Department data.
When survey respondents were asked why they still might hesitate to report suspicious activity, 43 percent said they were worried about getting innocent people in trouble.
