The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created in the wake of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. Federal agencies understood to play an integral role in protecting the American homeland from terrorist attacks were folded into this bureaucratic leviathan and included, among other federal agencies, the Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service and components of the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service).
The Official DHS Website lists it mission as follows:
The Core Missions
There are five homeland security missions:
1. Prevent terrorism and enhancing security;
2. Secure and manage our borders;
3. Enforce and administer our immigration laws;
4. Safeguard and secure cyberspace;
5. Ensure resilience to disasters;
While all sorts of arguments are being made about how secure or insecure our borders truly are, the irrefutable metric about border security has nothing to do with the arrest statistics offered by the administration (which are, at best, highly suspect), but can be found in the fact that our nation finds itself awash with heroin and cocaine. In point of fact, police departments and other first responder agencies across the United States are providing their members with the antidote to heroin overdoses. This is an unprecedented measure.
Neither heroin nor cocaine are produced in the United States. Therefore, every single gram of these substances that are present in the United States provides graphic and incontrovertible evidence of a failure of border security.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mic...p-to-its-name/
Inhofe, Lucas Introduce Bill Limiting Federal Agencies from Stockpiling Ammunition
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Congressman Frank Lucas (R-OK-3) today introduced in their respective chambers the Ammunition Management for More Obtainability (AMMO) Act of 2013. The legislation would require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a report on the purchasing of ammunition by federal agencies, except the Department of Defense, and its affect on the supply of ammunition available to the public. The AMMO Act would restrict agencies from obtaining additional ammunition for a six-month period if current agency stockpiles are higher than its monthly averages prior to the Obama Administration.
http://www.okgop.com/blog/2013/04/26....OVOx6hTX.dpuf
You might contact your rep and ask them to sign on to this bill.
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