GEORGE W. BUSH Homeland Security & Immigration
The Department of Homeland Security, a proposal Bush resisted at first, has become the centerpiece of his efforts to secure America. The President is proud of the Department's Terrorist Threat Integration Center, which is supposed to gather all threat information, as well as its reforms of airport and shipping container port security. In April Bush said he was open to suggestions for restructuring the Intelligence Community to do a better job stopping domestic threats. Bush has rejected Democratic complaints that his budgets underfund local first responders. The President proposed a dramatic immigration reform plan which would give illegal immigrants who hold jobs legal status as temporary workers. The plan is currently stalled in Congress.
