can we do without the massive DHS bureaucracy and leave all the sub-agencies intact
Thom Hartmann in 2013 had the right idea. The current impasse on DHS funding should come to an all-or-nothing poison pill vote because partisan piecemeal funding cuts only show the usual reactionary and ultimately racist GOP pettiness. This is the ultimate contradiction of GOP claims of wanting a minimal State. PBO should tell Congress if they wish to defund one sub-agency because immigration, it should be tied to restructuring the entire agency since it seems to be immune from austerity measures. And while you're at it, change it from the Godwin-like name of "Homeland", especially if residents of the homeland are under more threat from racist, militarized police than they would be from any foreign threat. This agency is a product of the spending bonanza that brought the search for WMDs and needs to get smaller as well as smarter. Even the hawkish Hillary should see the populist potential of this meme - hell, call it Domestic Security.
Is it time to do away with Homeland Security? The surveillance state is even bigger, and scarier, than we thought.
And, as a result, it's time that we broke up the failed national security experiment known as the Department of Homeland Security. Returning to dozens of independent agencies will return internal checks-and-balances to within the Executive branch, and actually make us both safer and less likely to be the victims of government snooping overreach.
at what moment in US History was it ever green