Border Security Agency Structure: A Hindrance to Demonstrating Border Security Success

Abstract

Long-awaited immigration reform may become a reality in 2013, as Congress debates the merits of a comprehensive overhaul. The primary criteria for triggering reforms in the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S.744), involves demonstrated control of the Southwest border. The debate has been complicated, however, because only a few analysts and not the Department of Homeland Security itself have been able to produce acceptable metrics that illustrate success at enforcing border operations, at or between, the ports of entry.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA620861

Entities

People

  • Cynthia Atwood

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Border Security
  • Congress
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Department Of State
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Exchange
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Administration
  • Public Policy
  • Undocumented Noncitizens
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design