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TSA checkpoint
The creation of the Department of Homeland Security after the attacks of September...
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At the border
Pres. George W. Bush, who created the Department of Homeland Security, visiting the...
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First Homeland Security Secretary
Tom Ridge showing off new color-coded threat levels in 2002.
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Minnesota standoff
U.S. Border Patrol agents and anti-immigration-raid protesters facing off in St....
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