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Mitch PerryOctober 16, 2017

Starting this week, the Department of Homeland Security will collect and store all social-media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information and search results in the permanent files of all immigrants. The new policy will include new immigrants, permanent residents and naturalized citizens. The regulation — or Modified Privacy Act System of Records — also will encompass “publicly available […]

Blake DowlingMarch 16, 2016

Law enforcement investigators are eager to see what information is on the iPhone5c that terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook used for his work at the San Bernardino, Calif. Health Department. Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and injured 22 others in December in San Bernardino. They attacked during a Health Department holiday party. Farook […]

Associated PressDecember 13, 2015

There’s no legal or historical precedent for closing U.S. borders to the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme Court case that clearly prevents a president or Congress from doing so. Legal experts are divided over how the high court would react to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s call for a temporary […]

Bob SparksDecember 11, 2015

On Nov.13, Islamic radical terrorists killed 130 innocent people in Paris. The world mourned with the French and offered thoughts and prayers. Some of us added the French flag overlay to our social media pages. The perpetrators were bent on killing as many “infidels” (or Muslims if they happened to be in the vicinity) as […]

Bob SparksDecember 10, 2015

On Nov.13, Islamic radical terrorists killed 130 innocent people in Paris. The world mourned with the French and offered thoughts and prayers. Some of us added the French flag overlay to our social media pages. The perpetrators were bent on killing as many “infidels” (or Muslims if they happened to be in the vicinity) as […]

Mitch PerryDecember 4, 2015

The FBI is now treating the San Bernardino shooting by a husband and wife that killed 14 and wounded 21 as an act of terrorism, a spokesman said on Friday. The announcement comes two days after the horrific attack, and a day after the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted down a gun control measure that would have […]

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Vern Buchanan pleased Homeland Security starting to track immigrants on social media

Blake Dowling: FBI, Apple in battle over confidentiality of iPhone data

No consensus about legality of Donald Trump’s idea of Muslim ban

Bob Sparks: Praying for victims and for solutions going forward

Bob Sparks: Praying for victims and for solutions going forward

FDP calls “unconscionable” Marco Rubio’s vote against wider gun background checks