How has the debate over federal-state relations been affected by efforts to increase homeland security?

 I don't know if this will help or hurt your but we developed homeland security to protect our most venerable areas. Those places are located in most of our major cities. Most of those cities are "sanctuary cities" who don't ask for legal status. Why should we spend "federal funds" to protect a city that refuses to enforce "federal law" especially when we know what the problem is? The city decides how to spend the funds. In Chicagothey invested in cameras. We have tons of FILMjust can't ask the pertinent questions. What good is video footage of people crossing the border when there's no-one there to pick them up? So farall I've seen is the ability of "homeland security" to monitor the citizensnothing to do with "terriorists". 

We have documented film and proof of a college professor saying to kill the gringo. Nothing has been done. We have protestors saying to kill Bush. Nothing is done. We have signs saying they will take back their landnothing. We have drug dealers than won't be busted unless they have OVER 500 LBS of illegal drugsbut they will bust a citizen for a roach clipbust a student for a comment on their "my space" account. 

I have asked over and over again what trumps what with laws? Smoking cigarettes is not illegal. It is not a federal crime. But...come here and smoke a LEGAL product in the wrong place and you have committed a crime. We have had cities that didn't want the smoking banbut they said state trumps city. OKNow if state trumps cityour STATE has declared English as the OFFICIAL state language. Then if that's the casewhy are people still going city by city declaring what their official language is? Why if it is federal law to not discriminate between sex, race, age etcthat it is OK that a Spanish manager hires only latino peoplebut a black or white manager can't? Why is it OK for a majority latino community to oust a black principle because "their" children feel more comfortable with a "latino" principlebut it's "racist" if any other group does that? No matter what the "majority" of the population is in that area? 

1.  go out into nature and commune with the divine2.  experience real solitude to truly perceive nature3.  realize that individuals are meant to learn from nature and transcend it4.  think of nature as a symbol of the divine