The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a department of the United States Federal Government.
22 governmental departments were transferred to the control of the newly-created Department of Homeland Security) as of March 1, 2003, including the United States Secret Service.[1]
Coast Guard joins Homeland Security Department. (2003, February 26). CNN. https://web.archive.org/web/20190603190655/http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/25/homeland.security/index.html?iref=mpstoryview ↩︎