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Blue Campaign
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Fact Sheet: DHS Blue Campaign
WASHINGTON—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today launched the “Blue Campaign”—a DHS-wide initiative to combat human trafficking through enhanced public awareness, victim assistance programs, and law enforcement training and initiatives.

The Blue Campaign encompasses a wide range of anti-trafficking programs designed to engage the American and global public, the Department’s federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement partners, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, and governments around the world.

The Blue Campaign’s name and symbol were chosen by the Department to evoke national and international efforts to combat human trafficking with reference to the “thin blue line” of law enforcement, as well as the global anti-human trafficking symbols the Blue Blindfold, produced by the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Center, and the Blue Heart, developed by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, to help raise international awareness about this issue.


Can you hear us now -Dept. of Homeland Security
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Department of Homeland Security Leadership Update List.
Leadership
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•Secretary, Janet Napolitano
•Deputy Secretary, Jane Holl Lute
•Chief of Staff for Policy, Noah Kroloff
•Executive Secretary, Philip A. McNamara
•General Counsel, Ivan K. Fong
•Under Secretary, Management, Rafael Borras
•Under Secretary, National Protection & Programs Directorate, Rand Beers


◦Assistant Secretary, Office of Cyber Security and Communications, Greg Schaffer
◦Assistant Secretary, Infrastructure Protection, Todd Keil
◦Director (acting), Federal Protective Service, Paul Durette.
•Under Secretary, Science & Technology, Dr. Tara O'Toole
•Under Secretary, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Caryn Wagner
•Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy, David Heyman


◦Assistant Secretary (acting), Office of International Affairs, Mariko Silver
◦Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy Development, Arif Alikhan
◦Assistant Secretary, Private Sector Office, Douglas Smith
◦Assistant Secretary (acting), State and Local Law Enforcement, Charles F. Dinse
•Assistant Secretary, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Juliette N. Kayyem
•Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Alejandro Mayorkas
•Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr.
•Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Alan D. Bersin
•Assistant Secretary, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), John T. Morton
•Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, W. Craig Fugate
•Director, United States Secret Service, Mark J. Sullivan
•Administrator, Transportation Security Administration, John S. Pistole
•Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, January Contreras
•Officer for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, Margo Schlanger
•Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement, Grayling Williams
•Director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (acting), Dr. William Hagan
•Director, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Connie L. Patrick
•Federal Coordinator, Gulf Coast Rebuilding, Janet Woodka
•Assistant Secretary, Office of Health Affairs/Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Alexander Garza
•Inspector General, Richard L. Skinner
•Assistant Secretary, Office of Legislative Affairs, Chani Wiggins
•Director, Operations Coordination, Rear Admiral John Acton (USCG Ret)
•Chief Privacy Officer, Mary Ellen Callahan
•Assistant Secretary, Office of Public Affairs, Sean Smith

LA Times ICE attorney Constantine Kallas
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Government attorney in L.A. is convicted of taking bribes from illegal immigrants
Constantine Kallas, assistant chief counsel with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, accepted bribes of as much as $20,000 in exchange for helping get benefits for illegal immigrants.
April 21, 2010|By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times
A government attorney who posed as an immigration judge and accepted thousands of dollars in bribes from illegal immigrants was convicted Tuesday in Los Angeles of federal corruption charges, the U.S. attorney's office said.

A U.S. District Court jury found Constantine Peter Kallas, assistant chief counsel at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Los Angeles, guilty of bribery, fraud, conspiracy, identity theft and obstruction of justice.

Immigration quotas
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By Sarnata Reynolds, Director for Refugee and Migrants' Rights at Amnesty International USA

On February 22, James Chaparro's sixth day on the job as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) behemoth detention and removal operation, he issued a memo directing all ICE field office directors to collectively identify, detain and deport 400,000 individuals in 2010. Stressing the need to increase this year's numbers, the memo communicated the quota and provided ideas for how individuals could be identified for deportation, including increased use of detention and deportations without an immigration court hearing (i.e., expedited and stipulated removal). Entirely missing from the memo was any consideration of the drastic impact massive detention and removal would have on individual families, communities and employers.

Govt attorney indicted bribery scandal
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Govt. Attorney Indicted In Bribery Scandal
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A high-ranking attorney at the Homeland Security agency that enforces immigration laws and protects the U.S. against terrorist attacks has been indicted by a grand jury for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from illegal immigrants seeking American citizenship.

The assistant chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had been arrested in June after a lengthy federal probe and, this week, a grand jury delivered a 75-count indictment charging him with bribery, money laundering, federal worker's compensation fraud and a series of other serious crimes.

Federal authorities say that the assistant chief ICE counsel (Constantine Kallas) and his wife, who has also been indicted, accepted hefty cash bribes from dozens of foreigners seeking documents to stay in the U.S. In fact, when he was arrested at a southern California Indian tribe casino, Kallas had just accepted a $20,000 bribe.

Assistant chief counsel Constantine Kallas
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Immigration official, wife face bribery charges

Federal officials arrest suspects at tribal casino
06/27/2008
By Stacia Glenn
Sun Staff Writer
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney and his wife suspected of accepting bribes from immigrants who wanted their paperwork fast-tracked have been arrested, authorities said.
Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas, 38, and Maria Kallas, 39, of Alta Loma were taken into custody Thursday at San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino, where authorities believed they were accepting such a bribe.
The couple used two companies they had set up to file false employment petitions with federal authorities for 45 illegal immigrants and two legal residents, claiming they were working as engineers, analysts and human resource managers, according to a search-warrant affidavit.

ICE scandal of the week 400,000 deportations goal FY10
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ICE Scandal of the Week: 400,000 Deportations Goal in FY10
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The Washington Post reported earlier this week on an internal Feb. 22 memo sent to ICE field directors across the country by James M. Chaparro, head of ICE detention and removal operations, urging staff to step up efforts to deport enough immigrants to meet a quota of 400,000 deportations for the year. (See WaPo story here).