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Management Alert - DHS Needs to Address Dangerous Overcrowding and Prolonged Detention of Children and Adults in the Rio Grande Valley (Redacted)
From the Document: "This management alert addresses overcrowding at four of the five Border Patrol facilities, and prolonged detention at all five facilities, we visited in the Rio Grande Valley. While our prior management alert on an El Paso facility identified similar issues with respect to the single adults detained in that facility, this alert highlights additional concerns with respect to UACs [unaccompanied alien children] and families being detained in the Rio Grande Valley facilities we visited. This alert also addresses security incidents in these facilities that reflect an escalation of the security concerns raised in our prior alert."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-07-02
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A Joint Review of Law Enforcement Cooperation on the
Southwest Border between the Federal Bureau of Investigation
and Homeland Security Investigations
"The U.S. Southwest border with Mexico spans nearly 2,000 miles. The region presents unique challenges to law enforcement, and, because multiple law enforcement agencies engage in investigative activity along the Southwest border, effective cooperation among such agencies is important to ensure that all agencies perform their work without jeopardizing the safety of law enforcement and the public. The U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are among the largest U.S. federal investigative law enforcement agencies. [...] For this review, the DOJ Office of the Inspector General (DOJ OIG) and the DHS Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) jointly evaluated cooperation between the FBI and HSI on Southwest border criminal investigations."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General; United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-07
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CBP's Global Entry Program is Vulnerable to Exploitation (Redacted)
From the Document: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) created the Global Entry Program (Global Entry) to allow expedited entry for pre-approved, low-risk travelers arriving in the United States. We conducted this audit to determine to what extent CBP controls over Global Entry prevent high-risk travelers from obtaining expedited screening."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-06-24
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DHS Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Misconduct and Discipline
From the Document: "We conducted this department-wide audit to determine whether the Department of Homeland Security has sufficient processes and procedures to address conduct issues. This report presents our findings on DHS oversight and the results of our employee survey."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-06-17
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Concerns About ICE Detainee Treatment and Care at Four Detention Facilities
From the DHS OIG [Office of Inspector General] Highlights: "Overall, our inspections of four detention facilities revealed violations of ICE's [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] '2011 Performance-Based National Detention Standards', which set requirements for facilities housing detainees. This report summarizes findings on our latest round of unannounced inspections at four detention facilities housing ICE detainees. Although the conditions varied among the facilities and not every problem was present at each, our observations, detainee and staff interviews, and document reviews revealed several common issues. Because we observed immediate risks or egregious violations of detention standards at facilities in Adelanto, CA, and Essex County, NJ, including nooses in detainee cells, overly restrictive segregation, inadequate medical care, unreported security incidents, and significant food safety issues, we issued individual reports to ICE after our visits to these two facilities. All four facilities had issues with expired food, which puts detainees at risk for food-borne illnesses. At three facilities, we found that segregation practices violated standards and infringed on detainee rights. Two facilities failed to provide recreation outside detainee housing units. Bathrooms in two facilities' detainee housing units were dilapidated and moldy. At one facility, detainees were not provided appropriate clothing and hygiene items to ensure they could properly care for themselves. Lastly, one facility allowed only non-contact visits, despite being able to accommodate in-person visitation. Our observations confirmed concerns identified in detainee grievances, which indicated unsafe and unhealthy conditions to varying degrees at all of the facilities we visited."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-06-03
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Management Alert - DHS Needs to Address Dangerous Overcrowding Among Single Adults at El Paso Del Norte Processing Center (Redacted)
From the Background: "In May 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Border Patrol leadership jointly testified before Congress that they are experiencing an unprecedented border security and humanitarian crisis along the southwest border. According to CBP statistics, the number of southwest border migrant apprehensions during the first seven months of FY 2019 has in general already surpassed that of the total apprehensions for each of the previous four fiscal years. At the sector level, El Paso has experienced the sharpest increase in apprehensions when comparing the first seven months of FY 2019 to the same period in FY 2018. Table 1 shows the total number of apprehensions by category and the percent increase for the El Paso sector."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-05-30
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Audit of DHS' Issuance and Management of Other Transaction Agreements Involving Consortium Activities
From the Highlights: "The Department of Homeland Security retains authority to enter into other transaction agreements (OTA) to meet research or prototype project requirements and mission needs. OTAs are not subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, increasing DHS flexibility but also increasing risk. In consortia OTAs, DHS uses consortium leaders as its lead point of contact and third-party intermediary between the Department and consortium members. Our audit objective was to determine to what extent DHS has controls for issuing and managing OTAs involving consortium activities. [...] DHS had controls in place when it issued, solicited, selected, and mitigated risks for its three OTAs involving consortia organizations, active in fiscal year 2017, to research critical infrastructure protection and develop prototypes for border and cyber security. However, the Department could better manage consortia OTAs by periodically reassessing the need for them. Specifically, DHS: [1] has retained an OTA involving consortium activities valued at approximately $87 million, which is more than 10 years old, without evaluating whether the services provided are the most effective; and [2] has allocated management, contracting, and legal counsel staffing resources to a more than 2-year-old consortia OTA with an estimated value of $125 million, which has not yet been used to develop border security prototypes."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-05-30
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Lessons Learned from Prior Reports on FEMA's 50 Percent Repair-Or-Replace Rule Decisions
From the Document: "During the recovery phase of declared disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) compares repair versus replacement costs to evaluate the feasibility of repairing damaged facilities. Using a '50 Percent Rule' FEMA determines whether a facility can be restored to perform the same functions as before the disaster. In seven audits conducted from 2012 through 2016, we identified FEMA's past challenges with repair-or-replace decisions. This report provides lessons learned from these challenges as discussed in previous OIG [Office of Inspector General] reports."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-05-29
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Dhs Needs to Address Oversight and Program Deficiences before Expanding The Insider Threat Program [THIS IS A HIRING ASSESSMENT - PLEASE DO NOT QC OR MODIFY]
From the document: "Before continung it's planned expansion of the Insider Threat Program, DHS needs to address several deficiencies that may hinder program effectiveness and efficiency. Although the expanded program was approved in January 2017, the Office of Chief Security Officer has yet to revise, obtain approval for, and re-issue required documentation. Specifically, DHS has not completed required standard procedures, acquistion paperwork, and the systems engineering life cycle framework. Those actions are necessary to ensure DHS programs are appropriately planned developed, and implemented for efficient and affective delivery of capabilities".
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-05-25
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Department of Homeland Security's FY 2018 Compliance with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 and Executive Order 13520, Reducing Improper Payments
From the Document: "Our objective was to determine whether DHS complied with IPERA [Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010] and Executive Order 13520. Additionally, we evaluated the accuracy and completeness of DHS' improper payment reporting. [...] We recommend that DHS strengthen its oversight and review procedures for IPERA risk assessments and follow the Office of Management and Budget's requirements to comply with IPERA."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-05-24
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DHS Needs to Address Oversight and Program Deficiencies Before Expanding the Insider Threat Program
From the Document: "In December 2017, DHS expanded the Insider Threat Program from monitoring user activity on its classified networks to monitoring cleared and non-cleared employees' activity on unclassified networks. We initiated a project to determine Insider Threat Program progress in monitoring, detecting, and responding to malicious insider threats on unclassified DHS systems and networks."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-05-24
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Special Report: Review Regarding DHS OIG's Retraction of Thirteen Reports Evaluating FEMA's Initial Response to Disasters
From the Highlights: "After Congress raised concerns about the accuracy of the findings and conclusions in DHS OIG's [Office of Inspector General] report on FEMA's 'Initial Response to Catastrophic Flooding in Louisiana' (OIG-17- 80-D), we conducted an internal review to determine the root causes of the deficiencies identified in that report and twelve similar DHS OIG reports purporting to evaluate the Federal Emergency Management Agency's initial response to certain declared disasters."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-05-23
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Audit of Department of Homeland Security's Fiscal Year 2017 Conference Spending
From the Highlights: "Although KPMG LLP (KPMG) found that DHS management has policies and procedures over conference spending and reporting, improvements are needed. Specifically DHS and its components did not: [1] maintain all required supporting documentation of actual conference costs, and certain costs in some instances, did not meet all reasonable and allocable criteria; [2] submit a fully compliant annual report to the Office of Inspector General [OIG] and to the public as the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 requires; [3] fully align with statutory requirements in its written policy governing the classification, approval, and reporting of conferences with scheduled training; [4] maintain the required documentation to support the use of training exemptions at certain components; and, [5] ensure that in all cases conferences with costs exceeding $20,000 are accurately and promptly reported to OIG. These deficiencies occurred because of insufficient resources, competing priorities, inconsistent review of expenses, and the lack of required policies and procedures."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-05-22
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Data Quality Improvements Needed to Track Adjudicative Decisions
From the Document: "USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] personnel enter adjudicative decisions into CLAIMS3 [Computer Linked Application Information Management System], its electronic system of record. We assessed USCIS' process for recording adjudicative decisions in CLAIMS3 and how USCIS used the data to support its quality assurance, fraud monitoring, and reporting processes. [...] We are making eight recommendations to improve the quality of adjudicative decisions recorded in CLAIMS3 and to address data reliability and monitoring issues."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-05-14
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FEMA Should Not Have Awarded Two Contracts to Bronze Star LLC
From the Highlights: "We received a request from seven U.S. Senators to examine FEMA's contracts awarded to Bronze Star LLC (Bronze Star) as part of its 2017 hurricane response and recovery efforts in Puerto Rico. We conducted this audit to determine whether FEMA followed procurement laws, regulations, and procedures when awarding contracts to Bronze Star."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-05-07
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Missouri's Management of State Homeland Security Program and Urban Areas Security Initiative Grants Awarded During Fiscal Years 2012 Through 2015
From the Document: "The Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) provides grant funds to help public safety personnel acquire specialized training, exercises, and equipment necessary to safely respond to and manage all-hazards incidents. The audit objectives were to determine whether Missouri distributed and spent HSGP funds in compliance with the law, program guidance, and state homeland security plans; the extent to which funds awarded enhanced the state's preparedness; and whether any duplicate benefits were received by other Federal agencies."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-29
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Additional Controls Needed to Better Manage FEMA's Transitional Sheltering Assistance Program
From the Highlights: "This interim report is part of an ongoing audit to determine the extent FEMA is meeting disaster survivors' transitional shelter needs after the California wildfires and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-29
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TSA Needs to Improve Efforts to Retain, Hire, and Train Its Transportation Security Officers
From the Document: "TSOs [Transportation Security Officers] are integral to improving aviation security at our Nation's airports by identifying prohibited objects in bags, in cargo, and on passengers. Therefore, TSA [Transportation Security Administration] must retain, hire, and train its TSOs with the requisite skills and abilities to help protect the Nation from aviation security risks. We conducted this audit to determine the extent to which TSA retains, hires, and trains TSOs to accomplish its screening mission."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-28
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Evaluation of DHS' Compliance with Federal Information Security Modernization Act Requirements for Intelligence Systems for Fiscal Year 2018
From the Unclassified Summary: "We evaluated the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) enterprise-wide security program for Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information intelligence systems. Pursuant to the 'Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014', we reviewed the Department's security program, including its policies, procedures, and system security controls for the enterprise-wide intelligence system. Since our FY 2017 evaluation, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis has continued to provide effective oversight of the department-wide intelligence system and has implemented programs to monitor ongoing security practices. We determined that DHS' information security program for Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information intelligence systems is effective this year as the Department achieved 'Level 4 - Managed and Measurable' in three of five cybersecurity functions, based on current reporting instructions for intelligence systems. However, we identified deficiencies in DHS' overall patch management process and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's weakness remediation and security awareness training activities."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-21
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Review of U.S. Coast Guard's Fiscal Year 2018 Detailed Accounting Submission for Drug Control Funds
From the Document: "The Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) Circular, 'Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary', requires each National Drug Control Program agency to submit to the ONDCP Director a detailed accounting of all funds expended for National Drug Control Program activities during the previous fiscal year. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is required to conduct a review of the agency's submission and provide a conclusion about the reliability of each assertion in the report."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-18
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Management Alert - FEMA Did Not Safeguard Disaster Survivors' Sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (Redacted)
From the Document: "This alert contains two recommendations directing actions Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should take to safeguard both Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (SPII) of disaster survivors and prevent additional privacy incidents similar to one we identified during our ongoing audit of FEMA's Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) program. FEMA concurred with both recommendations."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-15
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Oregon's Management of State Homeland Security Program and Urban Areas Security Initiative Grants Awarded During Fiscal Years 2013 Through 2015
From the Document: "FEMA's Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) provides grant funds to aid public safety personnel acquiring specialized training, exercises, and equipment necessary to safely respond to and manage all-hazards incidents. The audit objective was to determine whether Oregon distributed and spent HSGP funds in compliance with the law, program guidance, and state homeland security plans; the extent to which funds awarded enhanced the state's preparedness; and whether any duplicate benefits were received by other Federal agencies. [...] We made 10 recommendations, which, when implemented, should help strengthen program management, performance, and oversight."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-13
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ICE Faces Barriers in Timely Repatriation of Detained Aliens
From the Document: "The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repatriates thousands of aliens every year. In this review, we sought to identify barriers to the repatriation of detained aliens with final orders of removal. [...] We made five recommendations to improve ICE's removal operations staffing, flight reservation system, and metrics related to visa sanctions."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-11
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Review of U.S. Coast Guard's Fiscal Year 2018 Drug Control Performance Summary Report
From the Document: "The Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) Circular, 'Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary', requires each National Drug Control Program agency to submit to ONDCP Director a detailed accounting of all funds expended for National Drug Control Program activities during the previous fiscal year. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is required to conduct a review of the report and provide a conclusion about the reliability of each assertion made in the report."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-08
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Review of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Fiscal Year 2018 Detailed Accounting Submission for Drug Control Funds
From the Document: "The Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) Circular, 'Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary', requires each National Drug Control Program agency to submit to the ONDCP Director a detailed accounting of all funds expended for National Drug Control Program activities during the previous fiscal year. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is required to conduct a review of the agency's submission and provide a conclusion about the reliability of each assertion in the report."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-08
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Review of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Fiscal Year 2018 Drug Control Performance Summary Report
From the Document: "The Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) Circular, 'Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary', requires each National Drug Control Program agency to submit to ONDCP Director a detailed accounting of all funds expended for National Drug Control Program activities during the previous fiscal year. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is required to conduct a review of the report and provide a conclusion about the reliability of each assertion made in the report."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-08
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Review of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Fiscal Year 2018 Drug Control Performance Summary Report
From the Document: "The Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) Circular, 'Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary', requires each National Drug Control Program agency to submit to ONDCP Director a detailed accounting of all funds expended for National Drug Control Program activities during the previous fiscal year (FY). The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is required to conduct a review of the report and provide a conclusion about the reliability of each assertion made in the report."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-08
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Review of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Fiscal Year 2018 Detailed Accounting Submission for Drug Control Funds
From the Document: "The Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) Circular, 'Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary', requires each National Drug Control Program agency to submit to ONDCP Director a detailed accounting of all funds expended for National Drug Control Program activities during the previous fiscal year. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is required to conduct a review of the agency's submission and provide a conclusion about the reliability of each assertion in the report."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-07
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DHS Office of Inspector General, Testimony of Acting Inspector General John V. Kelly, Hearing Before Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives, March 6, 2019
From the testimony of John V. Kelly: "My testimony today will focus on our recent work in the areas of: (1) family separation, (2) unannounced inspections of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, (3) the Department's efforts to hire and train border patrol agents and immigration officers, and (4) oversight of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster relief work."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-06
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Fraud Alert: DHS Telephone Numbers Used in Scam to Obtain Personally Identifiable Information and Extort Money from Victims
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is issuing this fraud alert to warn citizens of reports that DHS telephone numbers have been used recently as part of a telephone spoofing scam targeting individuals throughout the country. Spoofing is the deliberate falsifying of information transmitted to a caller ID [identification] display to disguise an identity."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2019-03-01
