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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2016, file photo, a technician works to prepare voting machines to be used in the presidential election, in Philadelphia. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has told state officials that he is moving toward designating U.S. election systems as critical infrastructure, a designation that will provide more federal help for states to keep election systems safe from tampering. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

State election systems to get more federal aid for security

By TAMI ABDOLLAH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2016, file photo, a technician works to prepare voting machines to be used in the presidential election, in Philadelphia. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has told state officials that he is moving toward designating U.S. election systems as critical infrastructure, a designation that will provide more federal help for states to keep election systems safe from tampering. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

US designates election infrastructure as ‘critical’

By TAMI ABDOLLAH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2016, file photo, a technician works to prepare voting machines to be used in the presidential election, in Philadelphia. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has told state officials that he is moving toward designating U.S. election systems as critical infrastructure, a designation that will provide more federal help for states to keep election systems safe from tampering. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

DHS deems elections to be ‘critical infrastructure’ offers federal help

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 28, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump listens to a question as he speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

DHS secretary says Trump could alter 2012 amnesty

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. (Associated Press File Photo)

Jeh Johnson sees signs of success in getting countries to take back illegals

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 22, 2016, file photo, traffic moves along Orange Avenue after authorities opened the streets around the Pulse nightclub, scene of a recent mass shooting in Orlando, Fla. Police dispatchers heard repeated gunfire, screaming and moaning from patrons of the Pulse nightclub who called to report that gunman Omar Mateen was opening fire inside the club, according to written logs released Tuesday, June 28, 2016. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

DHS announces $10 million in grants to stop homegrown radicalization

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

July Fourth revelers are encouraged to enjoy their celebrations but are told to expect heightened security. (Associated Press/File)

July Fourth security out in force at holiday celebrations, transportation centers

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Sen. Patty Murray (left), Washington Democrat, face reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 28, 2016, as the Senate split along party lines and left a $1.1 billion proposal to fight the Zika virus in limbo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Harry Reid: ‘We’ve taken a bite out of the NRA,’ confident of gun-control deal this year

By Tom Howell Jr. and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz questions DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson on the Obama administration's decision to "purge" references to Islam from terrorism reports, Thursday, June 30, 2016. (C-SPAN 2)

Ted Cruz chews out Jeh Johnson over DHS ‘purge’ of ‘jihad,’ ‘Islam’ references in terror reports

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 17, 2016, file photo, travelers authorized to use the Transportation Security Administration's PreCheck expedited security line at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle have their documents checked by TSA workers. Massive lines at airports have now led to a backlog of people trying to enroll in trusted traveler programs. Waits to join PreCheck or Global Entry are months long in some cities. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

More security in place at airports, venues for Fourth of July weekend

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Jeh Johnson: I won’t second-guess FBI on past probe of Orlando shooter

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Jeh Johnson: No credible threats of more attacks in U.S. ‘at this stage’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

The American flag is flown at half staff over the White House in Washington, Sunday, June 12, 2016, after President Barack Obama spoke about the massacre at an Orlando nightclub. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Attorney general, Homeland security chief cancel China trip over Orlando nightclub massacre

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson denies he favored one side over the other while considering executive actions on amnesty. (Associated Press)

Jeh Johnson met twice as often with amnesty backers while crafting Obama executive actions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this March 17, 2016, file photo, travelers wait in line for security screening at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: TSA falls into chaos, delay

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives, accompanied by Mayor Jim Kenney for a during a campaign stop, Monday, April 25, 2016, at City Hall in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ** FILE **

Jim Kenney, Philadelphia mayor, rejects Obama’s request to end ‘sanctuary’ status for immigrants

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A health worker, center, takes the temperature of people to see if they might be infected by the Ebola virus inside the Ignace Deen government hospital in Conakry, Guinea, Friday March 18, 2016. The World Health Organization deployed specialists to southeast Guinea on Friday after two new Ebola cases were confirmed. The cases were announced just hours after Sierra Leone heralded the end of its recent Ebola flare-up, again dashing hopes that the deadly disease was gone from West Africa. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

DHS: Foreign nationals from Ebola-affected countries can stay 6 more months

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson pauses while testifying at a Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the FY2017 budget request on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

DHS arrest 336 illegal immigrants in latest push: ‘He or she must be sent home’

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

In a poll conducted by The Associated Press and the Times Square Alliance, mass shooting events like the one at Umpqua Community College in Oregon that killed multiple people, weigh heavily on the minds of Americans. That incident, plus shootings in San Bernardino, California, South Carolina, Oregon and Tennessee, are among the most important events to Americans in the past year, according to the poll. (Michael Sullivan/The News-review via Associated Press, file)

Jeh Johnson: Local law enforcement should train for active-shooter situations

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

"Deportation means death for some of these people," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, defending the Democrats' wishes to provide free immigration attorneys for illegals threatened with dismissal out of the U.S. (Associated Press)

Harry Reid, Democrats demand government-funded lawyers for illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times