Smuggling

Federal Government Duties and Responsibility “Homeland security begins with hometown security” according to DHS about building partnerships (2015). A part of DHS strategy to have local hometown security prepared they designate effort to get tools, information, and resources law enforcement partners. DHS being part of the federal government does not directly get involved with day to day with every state and local agency. Without having direct involvement with every incident DHS is currently…

Pooja Srikrishnnathasan Mrs.Drury HSB 4U0 Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime We usually would immediately think of the Mafia when we say gangs organized criminal groups, and this is because the vast majority of time they are mentioned in documentaries, news and they are best known from our knowledge because we are taught about them. Although we talk about the Mafia more and they are much more popularized it has come down to the fact that in North America we have almost every national…

Generally, United States would deport people who come here illegally without passports or green cards. United States, have been dealing with immigration complications for decades. An average person who has documents would not worry about immigration policies because they are fine. However, if we let anyone come in United States or let illegal immigrants stay then it will affect the citizens and residents as well. People do not realize that but it will affect them because you can get jobs without…

According to the UNTOC (UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime) transnational crimes do not have a precise definition, but in the criminological perspective transnational crime is identified as criminal activities which is against national jurisdiction. In 1995 the United Nations identified eighteen categories which were considered to be transnational crimes. Those crimes were; money laundering, terrorist activities, theft of art and cultural objects, theft of intellectual property…

On August 27, 2014, six men were arrested for conducting a human trafficking ring in Northeastern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin. (The Associated Press par 1). Of these men, only one, Ronald Provost of Foxboro, is native to Wisconsin; he was charged with child enticement (The Associated Press par 2). The other five men were arrested for prostitution (The Associated Press par 3). Human Trafficking, according to the advisers of the Do Something campaign, is using force to make people do…

“War on drugs is a series of actions tending toward a prohibition of illegal drug trade. It is a campaign adopted by the U.S. government along with the foreign military aid and with the assistance of participating countries, to both define and to end the import, manufacture, sale, and use of illegal drugs. This initiative includes a set of U.S. drug policies that are proposed to discourage the production, distribution, and consumption of illegal psychoactive drugs.” ("War on Drugs Law & Legal…

“Creative nonfiction has become the most popular genre in the literary and publishing communities” states Lee Gutkind. Before reading the webpage I would have with no doubt said that fiction was better than nonfiction, but now I think differently. Most people would label nonfiction as boring facts and documentary, as I myself always have. But that’s not the case. Creative nonfiction can be written in many forms, one of them being an essay. The main difference between a fiction and nonfiction…

Out of the Badlands In recent months the U.S. - Mexico border has become under scrutiny, then Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump announcement that he was going to build a wall along the southern boundary of Mexico and the U.S. to protect Americans from "Some bad Hombres"(Cummings). It's no secret that the Mexican drug cartels are conducting drug and human trafficking into the U.S. via tunnels from one border town into another and in some instances has been known to attempt to bring these…

Up to 200,000 women and children were trafficked through the Balkans in 2004 alone. Eastern European countries such as Romania, Moldova, Albania, and the former Soviet Union Republics are especially impacted by sex trafficking, due to lack of anti-trafficking law enforcement, high poverty and domestic violence rates. Each year, between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders, two thirds in the sex trade and 20% under the age of 18. Sometimes women voluntarily sell…

is a serious transnational crime which is part of the three “evils”- besides terrorism and drug trafficking- which haunt the Globe. (Kempadoo, 2005). Human trafficking is not a simple term, it involves sex trafficking, labour of children, human smuggling, even more tissue cells and organ trafficking. (International Criminal Police Organization, 2016) According to The United Nations, human trafficking is when a person is threatened, forced, abducted and deceived by another person. When a person…