• Romney Restates Pledge to Return FEMA to States
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   October 29, 2012
• As Hurricane Sandy approaches, Romney's pledge in the GOP primary to return FEMA's responsibilities to the states has been revisited.
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• State-by-State Guide to Hurricane Sandy
• Source: The New York Times   |   Nation   |   October 29, 2012
• A regularly updated state-by-state report on Hurricane Sandy as it barrels up the East Coast, threatening to create havoc for tens of millions of people.

• South Carolina Begins Verifying Businesses' Immigration-Law Compliance
• Source: The Greenville (S.C.) News   |   South Carolina   |   October 26, 2012
• At least seven employers in South Carolina have been cited for violating the state's newest tweaks to its immigration law, which requires all new employees, other than farm laborers, ministers and domestic servants, to be verified through the federal database.
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• LAX's Controversial Body Scanners to Be Replaced
• Source: Los Angeles Times   |   Los Angeles   |   October 23, 2012
• Faster X-ray machines will be used at LAX and other busy airports to replace scanners criticized for creating potential health risks and privacy violations.

• Border Agents Using Outdated Surveillance Equipment
• Source: Los Angeles Times   |   Southwest   |   October 22, 2012
• An Obama administration plan to install new cameras and improved ground sensors along the Southwest border has stalled, potentially creating unnecessary dangers for agents there.

• New York Terror Case: Is Recruitment Process for Foreign Students Flawed?
• Source: Christian Science Monitor   |   Nation   |   October 19, 2012
• The case of the Bangladeshi man who has been charged with attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank raises some troubling questions related to the international-student process.

• Federal Court Refuses to Reconsider Alabama Immigration Ruling
• BY: McClatchy News   |   Alabama   |   October 18, 2012
• The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a request from Alabama to revisit its decision in U.S. v. Alabama, which invalidated several areas of the state's immigration law

• Man Arrested After Allegedly Plotting Federal Reserve Bomb
• Source: CNN   |   New York City   |   October 18, 2012
• Federal authorities running a sting operation arrested a 21-year-old Bangladeshi man, who came to the U.S. on a student visa and was allegedly planning to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with what he believed was a 1,000-pound bomb.
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• ‘Startingly’ Low Number of Immigrants Apply for Deferred Action in Utah
• Source: Salt Lake Tribune   |   Utah   |   October 11, 2012
• Only 745 people in Utah have applied for deferred action and temporary work permits under President Barack Obama’s directive aimed at illegal immigrants brought to the United States as young children.

• U.S. Runs Out of Wildfire-Fighting Funds
• Source: Washington Post   |   Nation   |   October 8, 2012
• In the worst wildfire season on record, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service ran out of money to pay for firefighters, fire trucks and aircraft that dump retardant on monstrous flames.

• Los Angeles to Stop Turning Some Illegal Immigrants over to Feds
• BY: McClatchy News   |   Los Angeles   |   October 5, 2012
• The new rules mark a dramatic attempt by the nation's second-largest police department to distance itself from federal immigration policies that Charlie Beck says unfairly treat undocumented immigrants suspected of committing petty offenses.
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• States Defend Counterterrorism 'Fusion Centers' After Harsh Senate Report
• BY: Stateline   |   Nation   |   October 5, 2012
• State homeland security leaders and the local law enforcement community are disputing a Senate subcommittee’s charges that a network of 77 anti-terrorism centers, set up after 9/11 to share information, has “not produced useful intelligence to support federal counterterrorism efforts.”
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• Cybersecurity Resource Center Created to Help Governors
• BY: Government Technology   |   Nation   |   October 4, 2012
• The new organization will help state leaders create policy to protect infrastructure such as data and communication systems, financial records, banking systems, water systems, electrical grids and energy companies.
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• Post-9/11 'Fusion Centers' Full of Flaws, Report Says
• Source: Washington Post   |   Nation   |   October 3, 2012
• The nationwide network of offices known as “fusion centers” was launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to address concerns that local, state and federal authorities were not sharing information effectively about potential terrorist threats.

• Border Patrol Agent's Death Elicits Political Outcry
• Source: Arizona Republic   |   Arizona   |   October 3, 2012
• Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican who has been feuding with Democratic President Barack Obama over the best way to secure the border, said that there should be "righteous anger" at the "federal failure and political stalemate that has left our border unsecured and our Border Patrol in harm's way."