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Atlanta airport continues topping list of most guns found at checkpoints By FOX 5 Digital Team and Elizabeth Rawlins Published  article ATLANTA - Despite the COVID-19 pandemic slowing down air travel, Atlantas airport once again topped the list for most firearms found at airport security checkpoints last year. "While the overall numbers are down, the rate at which they were found per passenger doubled," said Mark Howell of TSA Public Affairs. "It does surprise me that with travel being down t...

Atlanta tops list of most guns found at security checkpoints in 2020     ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Atlanta topped the list for the most firearms found at airport security checkpoints last year, according to a 2020 gun statistics report released by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). TSA officers discovered 220 firearms at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in 2020, ranking Atlanta number one on the list of firearm catches at airport security checkpoints across the country. The D...

Published 19 January 2021 As emergency communications technologies adapt to an increasingly interconnected nation, DHS S&T announced it awarded more than $1.5 million to develop an Alerts, Warnings, and Notifications (AWN) Guidance Tool. As emergency communications technologies adapt to an increasingly interconnected nation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced it awarded more than $1.5 million to develop an Alerts, Warnings, and ...

POLITICO The Gutted, ‘Unnerving’ State of the Agencies Supposed to Keep the U.S. Safe As the nation’s security and intelligence apparatus prepares for more violence, it’s facing a dangerous leadership vacuum that seems to be getting worse by the day. Damage is seen to a Capitol door as members of the National Guard gather outside on January 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. | Stephen Voss for Politico By GARRETT M. GRAFF Link Copied . He is now at work on a history of Watergate. He can be rea...

U.S. and Israeli Partners Announce Awards for Homeland Security Technologies Newswise — WASHINGTON – The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation is announcing awards for two collaborative projects totaling $1.5 million to develop advanced homeland security technologies in the areas of threat detection and 3D mapping. The BIRD Homeland Security (HLS) program is a joint initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Techn...

ICE Arrests 117 Illegal Immigrants Who Failed to Self-Deport U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Dec. 21 that, over a 10-day period in December, agents arrested 117 illegal aliens who vowed to leave the country voluntarily but failed to do so. The agency said in a statement that the detained aliens had promised to leave on their own accord rather than face a formal deportation, but never did. The enforcement effort, called “Operation Broken Promise,” found that of the m...

California ICE officials say theyre unable to detain reoffenders released because of the pandemic Anna Giaritelli © Provided by Washington Examiner Federal immigration officials in California say they are unable to take into custody criminal immigrants who were court-ordered released because of the pandemic but have violated those terms and been rearrested by local police. More than 250 people of the 730 detainees at the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing ...