The Department of Homeland Security was created after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano heads the Department of Homeland Security. She is the third person to assume this office. From Deborah White:
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano heads the Department of Homeland Security. She is the third person to assume this office. From Deborah White:
Janet Napolitano, a pro-business, pro-choice centrist Democrat, was elected as Arizona Governor in 2002 and reelected in 2006... In November 2005, Time magazine named her one of the top five U.S. governors... To combat illegal immigration, the governor has opted to: crackdown on employers who hire undocumented workers; catch forgers of I.D. documents; push for more Homeland Security measures to deter border crossings.Traditionally, and by statute, the order of the presidential line of succession is determined (after the Vice President, Speaker of the House, and President pro tempore of the Senate) by the order of the creation of the cabinet positions. On 9 March 2006, President Bush signed H.R. 3199, which both renewed the Patriot Act and amended the Presidential Succession Act to move the Secretary of Homeland Security into the line of succession after the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (§ 503).