DHS Issues July 4th Warning as Roe v. Wade Reversal Has ‘Heightened’ Threat Environment

DHS Issues July 4th Warning as Roe v. Wade Reversal Has ‘Heightened’ Threat Environment
Pro-abortion activists (R) argue with pro-life activists in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on June 26, 2022. Nathan Howard/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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The head of the Department of Homeland Security announced Sunday that there is a “heightened threat environment” in the aftermath of recent Supreme Court decisions that were handed down.

“We have seen a heightened threat environment ... over the last several months over a number of different volatile issues that galvanize people on different sides of each issue,” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CBS News on Sunday. “We in the Department of Homeland Security become involved when there’s a connectivity between the- the opposition to a particular view or an ideology of hate, a false narrative, and violence.”

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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