and making changes to secure the border further. He believes that putting more money into border security will help lower the percentage of illegal immigrant’s crossing over into the country. Both Conservatives and Liberals want to have a secure border and to protect our country, but the problem is whether putting more money into border security will actually make a difference. In a debate over border security, Melysa Sperber stated her opinion about it saying, “Border controls have not proven…
There are people who I look up to for a better life. One of the people that I get inspired is my father. As a child, I would see him struggle for us to have a better life than what he had. My dad has been through a lot over the past 48 years of his life. Trying to be independent with no male role model in his life is hard since he didn’t have anyone to look up to. My father was born in a small town in Michoacán, Mexico called Capacho. He has one older sister and three younger brothers. He…
Question 1: The criminal justice system consists of 3 main components, which are: the police, the courts, and the prison systems. The following is an explanation of how each works and contributes to the United States criminal justice system. The Police Looking at the police on the state level, this can include a wide variety of state level policing forces such as a highway patrol or even fish and game. The police responsibilities in the United States criminal justice system holds a plethora of…
state, and local levels to protect U.S. borders and the mainland from threats posed by state actors, non-state actors, and other malicious entities. Additional threats homeland security must contend with include those that are biological origin such as highly pathogenic viruses as well as natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the primary federal agency responsible for homeland security with border security being one of its highest…
all over the globe. Millions of people come through the borders with visas for many reasons, but a high amount also come illegally. Immigration can include the policies it takes to manage and secure the borders, as well as how to manage the cases of people here in the U.S. already. The United States should focus its immigration policies more on the people already here inside the country instead of spending more resources on securing the border. Immigration policies focus on many things, but…
I will start with its uses here at home with its work with US Customs and Border Patrol as well as NASA. For the US Customs and Border Patrol the primary function is to provide surveillance and reconnaissance along both the US and Mexican border and the US and Canadian border (GCN,2006) (Military.com,2014). These systems are not equipped with armament. I cannot figure out why the Customs and Border Patrol chose to use the MQ-9 Reaper instead of its predecessor the MQ-1 Predator. The only…
The fight to control illegal immigration, trafficking, and terrorism is a continual effort of the United States and others as they consider human rights and a law enforcement approach to control the borders. In 2014, US Customs and Border Protection ran an ad called “Dangers Campaign” in South America as a mass outreach to warn people of the dangers of migration (Kaneti & Assis, 2016, p. 296). This low-cost approach pales in comparison to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) overall…
Border Protection Imagine yourself trying to cross the border every day just trying to make a better life for you and your family. Living on the streets and making four dollars an hour picking fruit off of trees is just not cutting it. You are trying to get by with the little resources you have found, but now that you are practically starving, you decide it is time to smuggle drugs. In the back of your mind you know filling out the VISA application to work here would be a smarter idea than…
This paper summarizes the Gap analysis for U.S Customs and Border Protection Agency, one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States Department of Homeland Security. Currently, there exists a gap in the managing disasters and particularly emergency issues, terror, and support for the border employees. This gap analysis will analyze the discrepancy that exists between the organization’s current emergency response and their targeted status in the future. It is an important…
Part of Customs and Boarder Protection Traditions and Border Protection (CBP) is the Department of Homeland Security organization in charge of securing the fringes of the United States while at the same time encouraging the stream of honest to goodness exchange and travel. CBP is a various association of law implementation experts, exchange pros, knowledge investigators, farming researchers, and different representatives in charge of a far reaching set of missions that secure the country while…