DHS Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2014–2018

Running Head: HOMELAND SECURITY’S STRATEGIC PLAN 1

HOMELAND SECURITY’S STRATEGIC PLAN 2

Homeland Security’s Strategic Plan

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Border security involves protection of borders from drugs, contraband, movement of weapons, and people while giving a promotion to travel and lawful trade, which is essential to homeland security, national sovereignty and economic prosperity, (Harvey, 2007). Border security, therefore, is a crucial national security component. It is even more than territorial access restriction through reform migration. It has been the core activities within states since the formation of sovereign nations, and it is noted to be an ambitious power expansion in modern history. In accordance with the Homeland Security department, border security is regarded as an act of border protection from all illegal movement. There has been an overwhelming increase on border security focus due to growing violence by transnational terrorism and nonstate groups on combat recent issues of national security, (Bigo, D2006). Porous and weak borders enhance secure entrance into the U.S. for smugglers and terrorist.

Policy makers in Washington D.C. care a lot on what happens miles away on northern and southwestern borders. Mexican American community extent provides an exceptional opportunity for cooperation between its ties back to family and friends for collaboration between civil society in the United States and Mexico, (Sánchez, 1995). Effective cooperation has long existing networks. Efforts to enhance accountability and transparency with the Mexico rule of law is an area where countries benefit through cooperation. Strengthening and preserving the U.S. bilateral relationship with Mexico through cooperation that is sustainable helps the U.S. advance its national interest all around the globe, nationalism, and nativism will not. The complexity and dynamism of the Mexico-U.S. relationship require non-state and state actors from both countries on basic construction and relationship deepening that benefits individuals in Mexico, the United States and beyond, (Andreas, 2012).

However, homeland security agencies are confined in what information and intelligence they can gather and how they can utilize it, foreign agencies of intelligence face no such limitations when researching non-US residents abroad. The shifted gathering specialists drive remote and residential organizations to gather various types of data and to characterize it at numerous dimensions, bringing about confusions accommodating the trade and sharing of data. What's more, offices regularly neglect to flow data since it doesn't meet an apparent edge of significance. CTC gives the scene to faculty from various organizations to cooperate and utilize all the data assets accessible in various foundations to address issues to do with terrorism. CTC additionally utilizes present day innovation to break up stovepipes and encourage organizational learning. The Intelligence Community has utilized its innovative abilities to empower coordinated effort on different issues. CTC can connect these individual and authoritative hindrances by promoting the formation of personal connections between people from various associations inside the insight and approach networks.

References

Harvey, F. P. (2007). The homeland security dilemma: Imagination, failure and the escalating costs of perfecting security. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 40(2), 283-316.

Bigo, D. (2006). Internal and external aspects of security. European security, 15(4), 385-404.

Sánchez, G. J., & Sanchez, G. J. (1995). Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. OUP USA.

Andreas, P. (2012). Border games: Policing the US-Mexico divide. Cornell University Press.