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Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity at National Cattle Congress sparks fear among Latinos

Source: WCF Courier

Local Hispanics are aware that the grounds have about the same capacity as the armory used to hold suspects after a 2006 raid of a Swift meat processing plant in Iowa, and are not comforted by the assurance that FEMA is conducting an exercise.

'Appalling Gap' Found in Homeland Defense Readiness.

Source: The Washington Post

Finally, someone calls attention to the obvious... The U.S. military is not prepared to meet catastrophic threats at home, and it is suffering from an "appalling gap" in forces able to respond to chemical, biological and nuclear strikes on U.S.

At OpEdNews: Sleep Well Tonight, Your National Guard is Awake

Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

The Army is stretched thin and coming home is not yet clear. Now our Air Force f-15's are down indefinitely. Who is guarding the skies of America?

Judge Blocks Enforcement Against Social Security Fraud by Illegals

*This is not my own work, this piece comes from the Middle American News website. The reason I posted it as an article is the article is on the homepage and I don't know how long it will be up as the main story considering it is from November.

Is the National Guard Properly Equipped to Protect the Nation if a National Emergency Struck? Nobody knows.

Source: GovernmentExecutive

Congressional investigators have found that the Defense Department does not adequately track National Guard equipment needs for domestic missions, raising questions about whether the state-run units have adequate supplies to respond to disasters and emergencies on U.S. soil.

FAA Installs Missles becuase of Terrorist Threat

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

"In yet another reminder of the lurking threat terrorist missiles pose to airliners, the Federal Aviation Administration has begun installing anti-missile systems on its fleet of aircraft.

Mutiny on Flight 613

Source: the Mail online

Very interesting incidences... walking off planes because there are Arabic appearing people on board? I wonder if this is just limited to the British, or if we'll soon see other cases like this in other areas?

Who Feels Safer?

"Last year the Army accepted its least qualified pool [of applicants] in a decade."