The Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman gives a fairly positive review of FEMA's evacuation and relief efforts in New Orleans following Hurricane Gustav. In fact, FEMA is now shifting its energy and employees to South Carolina where Hurricane Hanna is supposed to ...

So says President Bush about the federal response to Hurricane Gustav, the category 2 hurricane that hit central Louisiana yesterday. There is coverage everywhere today about the not-as-bad-as-expected hurricane that, unlike Hurricane Katrina three years ago, did not break the federally-constructed levees that protect the city.

The Washington Post's Spencer S. ...

The Washington Post's Spencer S. Hsu has a "day 3" story on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a Mississippi factory that rounded up a record number of almost 600 undocumented immigrants. Hsu points out that the raid occurred, even though the factory was using the federal e-verify ...

The New York Times' Adam Nossiter follows-up on yesterdays report on immigration raids in Mississippi-- to say it's much bigger than previously thought. About 595 people were rounded-up-- after Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents put the figure at 350 on Monday.

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I blogged yesterday about Immigrations and Customs Enforcement scrapping its Scheduled Departure program that asked undocumented immigrants to turn themselves in. It seems that the Dept. of Homeland Security agency has quickly reverted to old habits-- an ICE raid detained 350 workers yesterday at a factory in Laurel, Miss.

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After just three weeks, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement junked their "Operation Scheduled Departure" where 457,000 undocumented immigrants had the chance to turn themselves in exchange for....not being detained, I guess. The New York Times reports the final tally to be ...

If you get bad marks, you're supposed to think about how to do better next time, right?  That's the gist of criticisms of the Transportation Security Administration coming out of Congress, as ...

Larry Margasak of the Associated Press reports that an unlikely location made the cut as one of the five finalists for a $451 million Dept. of Homeland Security lab to study biological threats -- Flora, Mississippi. This was despite a panel of experts ...

The Washington Post's Spencer S. Hsu and Kari Lyderson took a look on Sunday at the newest -- and probably most ineffective -- immigration policy: "Scheduled Departure." While the name evokes dread about whether your plane will leave on time, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement ...

The Washington Post's Holly Watt files from the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where heads of cities have united around the need for more federal money to fight crime. The mayors contend that since 9/11 too much federal money has been re-routed from urban crime prevention and response to the ...