Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoffis an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Presidents George W. Bush andBarack Obama, and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as United States Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth28 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
Threats do not begin or end in a single country, ... must focus on common strategies and common systems of protection.
a systematic evaluation of the department's operations, policies and structures.
At the end of the day, if we don't give people in any business some sense that they have consistent rules ... then we're creating a regulatory system that is doomed to failure.
Completing the Border Infrastructure System will strengthen our efforts to reduce illegal entry to the United States. Congress provided us the authority to ensure this project is completed, and I intend to use it,
This new People Access Security Service, or PASS system card, will be particularly useful for those citizens in border communities who regularly cross northern and southern borders every day as an integral part of their daily lives. We're talking about essentially like the kind of driver's license or other simple card identification that almost all of us carry in our wallets day in and day out.
This is a system in desperate need, ... and people are rightly upset and distressed.
This is a system desperately in need of repair,
but other parts of the system have nearly collapsed under the weight of numbers.
because our constitutional system really places the primary authority in each state with the governor.
You've got to make sure you've built the entire system so that once you apprehend people, you can hold them and then remove them in a prompt way.
We're going to need more than just brute enforcement,
We're going to go back and look at all of this after-action, when we have time, but I've got to emphasize something: We are still in the middle of an emergency.
We're going to make sure that victims of this disaster, whatever their economic circumstances, get the necessary financial assistance to ensure that they can obtain a temporary residence for the time being, ... These programs have been designed to give families the maximum amount of flexibility and freedom to decide where they want to relocate and what they want to do over the next few months.
We're going to make sure help is on the way immediately to those who need it,