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DHS will ask stores to watch customers’ buying habits for terrorist clues

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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Jeh Johnson: No imminent threat against the U.S., despite Britain’s ‘severe’ alert

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

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Surge of illegal immigrant children drops by half in July

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Department of Homeland Security director Jeh Johnson, right, walks to a podium after finishing a tour of the Residential Detention Facility inside the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, N.M. on Friday, July 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Pool, El Paso Times, Rudy Gutierrez)

Feds tout nearly 200 arrests, $625K in seized cash in Texas border crackdown

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson speaks during a news conference in Washington on March 18, 2014. (Associated Press)

Jeh Johnson pressed on $190M contract to company amid fraud probe

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's declaration that "The border is secure" signals congressional gridlock over tens of thousands of children and families who have surged across the border this year. (Associated Press)

Harry Reid declares border ‘secure’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2012, file photo, passengers queue up for a security check at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China. The Transportation Security Administration is requiring passengers at some overseas airports that offer U.S.-bound flights to power on their electronic devices, the agency said Sunday, July 6, 2014. It says devices that won’t power up won’t be allowed on planes, and those travelers may have to undergo additional screening. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Some U.S.-bound air travelers must turn on phones

By WILL LESTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 24, 2014, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Johnson is ordering increased security measures at some overseas airports offering direct flights to the United States. The Homeland Security Department would not immediately say July 2 whether the increased measures were in response to intelligence about a specific threat. But a U.S. counterterrorism official says American intelligence has seen indications that certain terrorist groups in Yemen and Syria are working on a bomb that could make it through airport security undetected. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Homeland Security Secretary vows to ‘stem the tide’ at the border

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Demonstrators on opposing sides of the immigration debate are separated by police officers Friday outside a U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta, California. The town was the latest flashpoint for standoffs over the transport of illegal minor immigrants. (Associated Press)

Republicans: Obama ignored brewing border crisis

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson speaks at 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 from Central America crossing the border through the area. (Associated Press/The Monitor, Nathan Lambrecht)

Homeland Security deploys 150 agents to Texas border

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - This June 18, 2014 file-pool photo shows U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers waiting for new arrivals in the intake area where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. The Obama administration has released into the U.S. an untold number of immigrant families caught traveling illegally from Central America in recent months _ and although the government knows how many it&#8217;s released, it won&#8217;t say publicly. Senior U.S. officials directly familiar with the issue, including at the Homeland Security Department and White House, have so far dodged the answer on at least seven occasions over two weeks, alternately saying that they did not know the figure or didn&#8217;t have it immediately at hand. &#8220;We will get back to you,&#8221; the Homeland Security deputy secretary said Friday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File-Pool)

Congressional Dems’ bill provides lawyers for illegal immigrant children

By Stephen Dinan and S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

FILE - This June 18, 2014, file photo shows a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer as he helps a few boys to make phone calls, some of the hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children that are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. Thousands of immigrant children crossing alone into the U.S. can live in American cities, attend public schools and possibly work here for years without consequences. The chief reasons are an overburdened, deeply flawed system of immigration courts and a 2002 law intended to protect children's welfare, an Associated Press investigation finds. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)

Jeh Johnson: ‘No permisos’ for children on border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Associated Press)

HUMPHRIES: Exclusive inteview with Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio

By Rusty Humphries

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Homeland Security to probe border child abuse allegations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Border Patrol agents processes a number of illegal immigrants caught entering the United States, in Sasabe, Ariz., on Jan. 19, 2007. One border-state local law enforcement officer said the border has become so dangerous in some places the Feds don’t allow their border patrol to actually patrol the border because it’s not safe.(Associated Press)

Surge in illegal immigrants blamed on U.S. policy, not on spiking violence in Central America

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and three of his top aides have used personal email accounts for government business, feeding the growing legal storm over secret accounts and how much access the public should have to those records. (Associated Press/File)

Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson admits to need for border reform

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks at the commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's Class of 2014, in West Point, N.Y., Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Republicans standing between President Barack Obama and an immigration overhaul say the president’s move to ease deportations is Exhibit A for why Obama can’t be trusted to enforce the law. So Obama is moving to deny Republicans that argument, setting up the GOP to bear all the blame if summer comes and goes with no action on immigration. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

GOP bristles over Obama pressure on immigration

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press

**FILE** Eva Cardenas, a community organizer who works for Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, marches in front of the Federal Court with other protesters in Atlanta on June 20, 2011. (Associated Press)

DHS chief Jeh Johnson: Agents shouldn’t target illegal immigrants at courthouses

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times