Free Talk Live - ICE

Easter reminder: Kinder Eggs banned in the United States

Renniks — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:14:28 +0000

Not all eggs are created equal in the eyes of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Kinder Eggs, a popular European chocolate egg that contains a toy inside, is banned from importation into the United States because it contains a "non-nutritive object embedded in it."

U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’

XD45 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:17:38 +0000

The US Government has yet again shuttered several domain names this week. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE office proudly announced that they had seized domains related to counterfeit goods and child pornography. What they failed to mention, however, is that one of the targeted domains belongs to a free DNS provider, and that 84,000 websites were wrongfully accused of links to child pornography crimes.

U.S. drones to watch entire Mexico border starting Sept 1

Renniks — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:21:20 +0000

The U.S. government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring the whole southwest border with Mexico from September 1, as it ramps up border security in this election year, a top official said on Monday.