Border and Transportation Security: Overview of Congressional Issues

Abstract

Enhancing border and transportation security (BTS) are essential strategies for improving and maintaining homeland security. Border security entails regulating the flow of traffic across the nation's borders so that dangerous and unwanted goods and people are detected and denied entry. This requires a sophisticated border management system that balances the need for securing the nation's borders with facilitating the essential free flow of legitimate commerce, citizens, and authorized visitors. Transportation security involves securing the flow of people and goods along the nation's highways, railways, airways, and waterways. While in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 efforts primarily concentrated on an expanded federal role in aviation security (in particular on the heightened screening of passengers and baggage), increasingly attention is being turned towards other modes of transportation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 17, 2004
Accession Number
ADA454040

Entities

People

  • Jennifer E. Lake

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Automatic Identification Systems
  • Biometric Security
  • Civil Rights
  • Coast Guard
  • Counterterrorism
  • Criminals
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Detection
  • Employment
  • Identification Systems
  • Law
  • Maritime Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Transportation
  • Undocumented Noncitizens

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