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America’s Issues 1

America’s Issues

Terrorism and illegal immigration are perhaps two of the most immediate inter-related national security issues that the U.S government is trying to address. Several strategies and governmental actions are being debated upon as to whether or not their implementation should be followed through. The recent proposals that have been set forth by the U.S government have been met with a lot of criticism in relation to minimizing the terrorist threat: building a 30-foot high wall at the Mexican border and issuing a 90-day travel ban that would prevent individuals to enter the U.S from six predominant Muslim countries including Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. According to a fact sheet of Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Iraq was excluded even though it was present on the original list that was devised.

According to an article by Washington Post, a report by the DHS “concluded that citizenship is an “unreliable” threat indicator and that people from these [six] countries have rarely been implicated in U.S.-based terrorism”. (Zapotosky, 2017) A New York Times article ‘Immigration Ban Is Unlikely to Reduce Terrorist Threat, Experts Say’, stated that the DHS report further reported that since the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, no one has been killed in the U.S as a direct result of a terrorist attack carried out by anyone who emigrated from the six countries targeted in the travel ban. (Shane, 2017)

Perhaps a more comprehensive strategy that is required to address the security threat should be focused on identifying individuals who have been identified as dangerous criminals and then finding an effective way to deport them. (Swidey, 2017)

Additionally, the focus should be shifted towards internet since majority of the terrorist activity is defused and internet-grown. An evaluation of which of these strategies is more preferable is perhaps irrelevant when it comes to national security issues. Perhaps both are equally important and should be implemented simultaneously to ensure that maximum effort is carried out to minimize the threat. The local, state and federal governments should all collaborate to identify immigrant criminals/ those who have a history of violent behavior and are residing within the various states and have them removed them from the U.S. The federal government would be required to collaborate with intelligence agencies during the execution of these strategies because inter-agency collaboration is essential especially while dealing with national security issues.

References

Zapotosky, M. (2017). DHS report casts doubt on need for Trump travel ban. Washington Post. Retrieved 15 May 2017, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national security/dhs-report-casts-doubt-on-need-for-trump-travel-ban/2017/02/24/2a9992e4-fadc 11e6-9845-576c69081518_story.html?utm_term=.31dc62597ffb

Shane, S. (2017). Immigration Ban Is Unlikely to Reduce Terrorist Threat, Experts Say. Nytimes.com. Retrieved 15 May 2017, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/politics/a-sweeping-order-unlikely-to-reduce terrorist-threat.html

Swidey, N. (2017). Trump’s travel ban wouldn’t work anyway. But this would. - The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 15 May 2017, from https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/03/15/trump-travel-ban-wouldn-work anyway-but-this-would/TtD8Kwf661ZGD0Lei7l64L/story.html