 It's now my privilege to sign the Homeland Security Act. The Department of Homeland Security will have nearly 170,000 employees. The threat of mass murder on our own soil will be met with a unified, effective response. So the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, is celebrating its 20th birthday, which is a perfect opportunity to rethink the whole concept of Homeland Security and how to best provide it. DHS has grown into a monster child that is massively expensive, incredibly ineffective, and reliably destructive of basic civil liberties. It's time to abolish it and replace it with fewer, smaller, and more accountable agencies.