The Department of Homeland Security was quite possibly the largest expansion in the federal bureaucracy since the New Deal. And, bureaucracies are the farthest possible from the necessarily efficient and well coordinated organizations we need managing our fragile counter-terrorism, immigration and customs systems.
Growing numbers of noncitizens, including legal immigrants, are held unnecessarily and transferred heedlessly in an expensive immigration detention system that denies many of them basic fairness, a bipartisan study group and a human rights organization concluded in reports released jointly Wednesday.
If DHS can’t properly manage detention policies for immigrants, who are conceivably not terrorists, how can we expect it to do any better when it comes to people who want to harm us all?
