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The Department of Homeland Security has proven to be an unnecessary and costly reorganization of government. DHS’s structure complicates management, frustrates oversight, and encourages wasteful spending. DHS grant programs also distort state and local spending priorities. If America could be made safer by wasteful spending on unused decontamination gear, Congress could declare victory now.
The Department of Homeland Security should be abolished, and its components reorganized into more practical groupings. The agencies tasked with immigration, border security, and customs enforcement belong under the same oversight agency, which could appropriately be called the Border Security Administration. The Transportation Security Administration and Federal Air Marshal Service should be abolished.
DHS should also get out of the domestic intelligence business. The FBI and local police agencies already handle every other domestic criminal threat, and terrorism should be no exception. Federal and state legislators should end funding to fusion centers and move whatever legitimate tip-screening and information-sharing functions they provide to FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces. Political dissent should never become a key indicator of terrorist intent.
Abolishing DHS and reorganizing its components can save billions annually and alleviate the mounting pressure on civil liberties that we have experienced under ever-expanding homeland security bureaucracy. Terrorism remains a serious problem, but a sprawling Department of Homeland Security is not the proper way to address that threat.
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