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President Barack Obama speaks about immigration at Del Sol High School, in Las Vegas, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. The president unveiled expansive executive actions on immigration Thursday night to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation, setting off a fierce fight with Republicans over the limits of presidential powers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

ROY BECK: How Ferguson and amnesty are connected

By Roy Beck

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent peers out of the open door of a helicopter during a patrol flight near the Texas-Mexico border. (AP Photo)

Two Turkish terrorists released into U.S. by Homeland Security Department

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama talks with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson in the Cabinet Room of the White House, July 25, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obama immigration flip-flops prove problematic for Jeh Johnson

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson testifies on "the Impact of Presidential Amnesty on Border Security" in front of the House Committee on Homeland Security on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, December 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

DHS says it still can’t measure border security

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said his concern over foreign terrorist groups is whether or not they are sharing personnel, intelligence and resources. (associated press)

Jeh Johnson: Immigration changes ‘simple common sense’

By Erica Werner - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2013 file photo, Ashton Carter testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. People familiar with the decision-making process say President Barack Obama’s shortlist for Defense Secretary includes Carter, the former deputy defense secretary who left the administration in late 2013, and Robert Work, who currently holds the No. 2 job at the Pentagon. The president has also been considering Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who previously served as the Pentagon’s top lawyer, though some administration officials are concerned about leaving a vacancy at DHS just as the agency starts implementing Obama’s immigration executive actions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obama faces shrinking pool of Pentagon contenders

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014, where he spoke about the president's schedule and answering questions on topics including Ferguson and the economy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama would veto effort to block immigration action: White House

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama walks the White House Colonnade, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, in Washington, before his departure aboard Marine One to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Obama is traveling to Las Vegas to promote an executive order that would offer temporary legal status to millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally and set off a new fight with Republicans in Congress.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

For Obama, a long road to immigration order

By Julie Pace and Josh Lederman - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 25, 2014 photo shows a group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas. The influx at the border is largely families with children or by minors traveling alone. From October 2012 through the end of September 2013, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended about 24,000 unaccompanied children. But between October and the end of June 2014, the number shot up to 57,000. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson testified recently that the number is accelerating so fast that it could reach 90,000 by the end of September. Most of them are coming from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Jeh Johnson: U.S. could face new surge of illegals

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, a woman and child are escorted to a van by detention facility guards inside the Artesia Family Residential Center, a federal detention facility for undocumented immigrant mothers and children in Artesia, New Mexico. The facility is now releasing more detainees rather than deporting them, according to Artesia Mayor Phillip Burch. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca, File)

Artesia mayor: 95 percent of families of illegals being released

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent peers out of the open door of a helicopter during a patrol flight over McAllen, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. (Associated Press)

Terrorists smuggled across U.S. southern border before capture in Texas

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Jeh Johnson (Associated Press)

Homeland Security to increase security at some federal buildings

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Illustration on the dangers of the ucontroled southern border by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

McCAUL: Securing the border to keep Americans safe

By Michael McCaul

A health worker scans skin temperature of the passengers with a thermal imaging camera upon their arrival at Alexander the Great airport near Macedonia's capital Skopje, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Macedonian health officials said Friday that there are small chances that the British traveler who had died Thursday in Skopje was infected by Ebola virus. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Lawmakers clamor for their airports to be added to Ebola screening list

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Bellevue Hospital nurse Belkys Fortune, left, and Teressa Celia, Associate Director of Infection Prevention and Control, pose in protective suits in an isolation room, in the Emergency Room of the hospital, during a demonstration of procedures for possible Ebola patients, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. The U.S. government plans to begin taking the temperatures of travelers from West Africa arriving at five U.S. airports, including the New York area's JFK International and Newark Liberty International, as part of a stepped-up response to the Ebola epidemic. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

U.S. commander warns of Ebola threat at Mexican border

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, a woman and child are escorted to a van by detention facility guards inside the Artesia Family Residential Center, a federal detention facility for undocumented immigrant mothers and children in Artesia, N.M, A surge of cases involving immigrants from Central America has backed up federal courts and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The cases have been moved to Denver by judges in Arlington, Va. Officials say it makes more sense to hold the proceedings in the same time zone as the detention center. Hearings are being held by video from Artesia, N.M. starting on Monday, Sept. 29. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca, File)

Illegal immigration leaps for third straight year

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson speaks at the Canadian American Business Council in Ottawa on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Sean Kilpatrick)

Terrorists not breaching U.S. border: Jeh Johnson

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, before the House Oversight Committee as it examines details surrounding a security breach at the White House when a man climbed over a fence, sprinted across the north lawn and dash deep into the executive mansion before finally being subdued. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Julia Pierson resigns as Secret Service director

By Stephen Dinan and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, from left, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen testify before the House Homeland Security Full Committee during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson opposes White House on Libya visas

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** U.S. Border Patrol Agents listen to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson speak during a press conference in Edinburg, Texas, on June 30, 2014. Johnson said he is sending an additional 150 Border Patrol agents to the Rio Grande Valley Sector to help with a recent spike in immigrants crossing the border through the area. (Associated Press/The Monitor, Nathan Lambrecht)

Southcom: DHS wants Southwest border command to better handle illegal immigration, crime

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times