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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — According to the testimony by the DPS Deputy Commission, Jerry Letuli, October is now the target date for the Department of Public Safety/Office of Motor Vehicles to begin issuing REAL ID driver’s licenses and ID cards. Letuli, along with Director of the Department of...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The local Department of Homeland Security’s (ASDHS) efforts, through its Office of Territorial and International Criminal Intelligence and Drug Enforcement (OTICIDE), to halt the influx of illegal drugs into the territory is hindered by the fact that it does not have...
Homeland security personnel siting on shore in sight of yacht
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While the community is asking why agents from the Department of Homeland Security, along with other government officials are stationed under pulu trees in front of the ASCO Motors in Pago Pago this week, Samoa News was told that these agents are monitoring a yacht flying...
Director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHL), Samana Semo Ve’ave’a
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “The 911 system is not only broken and outdated, but it’s nothing but an operator.” This was the statement by the Director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHL), Samana Semo Ve’ave’a before the House Public Safety Committee hearing last week, which addressed many...
Congresswoman Amata with Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii)
Washington, DC —  Congresswoman Aumua Amata hailed the success of a bipartisan request to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding its administrative rules which placed undue constraints on Compact of Freely Associated States migrants seeking to obtain REAL IDs. The DHS has responded...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Homeland Security is following up leads after laser beams were trained on the cockpit of the Hawaiian Airlines flight during a flight from Honolulu to Pago Pago last Thursday. The Director of Homeland Security Samana Semo Ve'ave'a said based on...