Proceedings in the deportation trial of accused Liberian war criminal George Boley closed last week in Batavia Immigration Court. Judge John Reid granted the Department of Homeland Security’s request to submit its closing arguments in writing by June 17.

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BUFFALO — New York Democratic Congressman Brian Higgins is pressing a House committee to hold hearings to examine planned cuts to anti-terrorism funding for cities. The Department of Homeland Security last week notified ...

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ALBANY — Upstate New York’s metropolitan regions are set to lose a total of almost $10 million in anti-terrorism funding because of federal budget cuts. The Department of Homeland Security notified 30 cities around the country ...

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BUFFALO — Sen. Charles Schumer says Homeland Security will begin tapping into Canadian military radar later this year to detect low-flying aircraft used to smuggle drugs from Canada into the United States. The Democrat chaired a hearing of the subcommittee ...

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They’re back — but not by popular demand. “They” are “no-match” letters from the Social Security Administration, and they’re giving employers a headache. The SSA started sending out no-match letters at the beginning of April ...

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BUFFALO — Sen. Charles Schumer says he'll hold a Senate committee hearing in Washington to push federal officials on security initiatives the New York Democrat is seeking for the nation's northern border. Schumer said Tuesday he'll be chairman ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A congressional panel investigating homegrown terrorism in America displayed sharp divisions Thursday over how to frame the discussion, reflecting a country still struggling with how best to combat terrorism nearly a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country’s post-9/11 jitters. The 8-year-old system, with its rainbow of five colors — from green, signif ...ying a low threat, to red, meaning severe

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — New U.S. security rules are in place banning all cargo from Yemen and Somalia and prohibiting toner and ink cartridges weighing more than one pound from passenger flights, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — About half of the nearly 393,000 people removed from the country during the past year were criminals, according to Homeland Security Department statistics.

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Gov. David A. Paterson last week appointed Mary B. Kavaney as deputy secretary for Public Safety. She will oversee all of the state’s Homeland Security and criminal justice agencies ...

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