Group: Terrorism not focus of Homeland Security

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Claims of terrorism represented less than 0.01 percent of charges filed in recent years in immigration courts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group.

This comes despite the fact the Bush administration has repeatedly asserted that fighting terrorism is the central mission of DHS.

The Transactional Records Action Clearinghouse said it analyzed millions of previously undisclosed records obtained from the immigration courts under the Freedom of Information Act.

Of the 814,073 people charged by DHS in immigration courts during the past three years, 12 faced charges of terrorism, TRAC said.

Those 12 cases represent 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed.

"The DHS claims it is focused on terrorism. Well that's just not true," said David Burnham, a TRAC spokesman. "Either there's no terrorism, or they're terrible at catching them. Either way it's bad for all of us."

More: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/27/homeland.security.record/index.html

...It isn't Fascism when ReThuglicans do it!

I suspect it's a way of making sure they can control the masses because masses get mad when you starve them. And we know the starving will start not too far in the future.

Maybe they misheard the mission as focusing on terriblism?

Good one dave_p!

made up. Besides, over 17 THOUSAND people died in the US last year because of alcohol-related car accidents (without counting the wounded and disabled). No war on alcohol resulted from that. I'm not a prohibitionist type, but logically, when you consider the numbers, that's much worse than 9/11.

Mentioned in the CNN piece.

http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/