What Does a Secure Border Look Like?
Title | What Does a Secure Border Look Like? PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security |
Publisher | |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Border security |
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What Would a Secure Border Look Like?
Title | What Would a Secure Border Look Like? PDF eBook |
Author | Marc R. Rosenblum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Border security |
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Marc R. Rosenblum testimony. This hearing raises an important question for Members of Congress concerned about border security: What would a secure border look like? The United States spends billions of dollars and expends extraordinary effort to secure the border; and the Department of Homeland Security collects tables full of enforcement data. Yet after years of grappling with this question, no consensus exists about how to measure border security or how to evaluate existing enforcement efforts. Thus, while the White House asserts that our borders today 'are more secure that at any time in the past several decades,' Chairman Miller and others have warned against 'accepting empty promises on border security,' and asked 'how the American people can be assured that the border is truly secure?' My testimony begins by describing how to measure border security and identifies several concrete steps that could be taken to develop better border metrics. The second part of my testimony reviews recent border security and immigration enforcement efforts and identifies possible gaps in these efforts. I conclude by offering a tentative assessment of the current state of border security. ,
What Does a Secure Border Look Like?
Title | What Does a Secure Border Look Like? PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2017-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781977789358 |
What does a secure border look like? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, February 26, 2013.
What Does a Secure Border Look Like?
Title | What Does a Secure Border Look Like? PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Border security |
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The Wall
Title | The Wall PDF eBook |
Author | Vanda Felbab-Brown |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Pages | 13 |
Release | 2017-08-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0815732953 |
In her Brookings Essay, The Wall, Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explains the true costs of building a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, including (but not limited to) the estimated $12 to $21.6 billion price tag of construction. Felbab-Brown explains the importance of the United States' relationship with Mexico, on which the U.S. relies for cooperation on security, environmental, agricultural, water-sharing, trade, and drug smuggling issues. The author uses her extensive on-the-ground experience in Mexico to illustrate the environmental and community disruption that the construction of a wall would cause, while arguing that the barrier would do nothing to stop illicit flows into the United States. She recalls personal interviews she has had with people living in border areas, including a woman whose family relies on remittances from the U.S., a teenager trying to get out of a local gang, and others.
Border Insecurity
Title | Border Insecurity PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Longmire |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2014-04-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137443731 |
When confronted with the challenges of border security and illegal immigration, government officials are fond of saying that our borders have never been as safe and secure as they are now. But ranchers in the borderlands of Arizona and Texas fear for their lands, their cattle, their homes, and sometimes their lives due to the human and drug smuggling traffic that regularly crosses their property. Who is right? What does a secure border actually look like? More importantly, is a secure border a realistic goal for the United States? Border Insecurity examines all the aspects of the challenge—and thriving industry—of trying to keep terrorists, drug smugglers, and illegal immigrants from entering the United States across our land borders. It looks at on-the-ground issues and controversies like the border fence, the usefulness of technology, shifts in the connection between illegal immigration and drug smuggling, and the potential for terrorists and drug cartels to work together. Border Insecurity also delves into how the border debate itself is part of why the government has failed to improve information sharing and why this is necessary to establish a clear and comprehensive border security strategy.
What Does a Secure Maritime Border Look Like?
Title | What Does a Secure Maritime Border Look Like? PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Border security |
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