The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) FY 2009 Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) is a comprehensive report that combines CBP¿s Annual Performance Report with its audited financial statements, assurances on internal control, accountability reporting and agency assessments. CBP¿s PAR provides financial and performance information that enables Congress and the public to assess the performance of the agency as it relates to the CBP mission. CBP is America¿s frontline border agency; it guards our boundaries. The CBP PAR discusses the agency¿s strategic goals and objectives and provides a comparison of agency performance targets to actual performance results. Illustrations.

This second edition is an update of the intersection of border security, immigration, and assimilation in the U.S.A. In addition to the history of immigration and custom services and shifts in attitudes about immigration, this edition provides new information about the operations of the Department of Homeland Security to secure the border. A new chapter examines developments in immigration policy relating to the border wall, family separation, unaccompanied immigrant minors and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA. The book includes real-life stories of difficult incidents that arise due to the complicated relationship between immigration and border security. The authors review prospects for comprehensive immigration policy and border security policy.

In all levels of social structure, from the personal to the political to the economic to the judicial, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security and Privacy uncovers and explains how surveillance has come to be an integral part of how our contemporary society operates worldwide.