Border control for the US: “Legitimate threat”

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10 pages

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.doc

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05/05/2009

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Table of Contents Border control for the US: “Legitimate threat” Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The current threat of terrorism the United States
  3. John Mueller's view on the terrorist threat Al Qaeda expert
  4. Creation of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  5. Situation before the september attacks
  6. The need for improvements
  7. National interest in the state of border controls
  8. Border policies since 9/11
  9. Conclusion
  10. Bibliography

Abstract

The attacks on September 11, 2001 forced a change in the national security policy of the United States. Eight years later, debate still surrounds the issue on how best to defend against terrorism. The question of how large of a national security threat do current border policies pose to the United States in terms of facilitating an increase in terrorism has both is supporters and opponents. The two sides to this argument-border control is important in protecting the US on one hand and terrorism is not too reliant on entry through borders, hence the borders are not a threat to national security and funds should be diverted to other areas on the other- create great debate. After comparing the two sides to this argument over the extent of the threat to national security that border control policies pose, I argue that the borders do in fact pose a threat to national security as terrorists have acknowledged the ease in entering the United States illegally, but more importantly, it is the seaports that have the greatly potential to be exploited by terrorism. fortunately there have been no attacks in the United States since 9/11; however, border control strategies need to be redefined in order to keep America safe.

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