15 recommendations wer given including:
1. Protecting the right to request and be granted asylum.
2. Adapt national legislation to international standards
3. Adapt internal migration norms, policies, procedures and protocols to international norms and standards
4. Ending fast-track deportations and automatic returns
5. Adopt necessary measures in order to safeguard the right to counsel of migrant persons, asylum-seekers, and refugees
6. Ending lengthy migration detentions and taking any measures necessary to implement alternatives to deprivation of liberty
7. Ensuring conditions of detention that meet international standards for deprivation of liberty
8. Closing the processing centers supervised by the CBP.
9. Ending the practice of detaining children and adolescents in detention centers.
10. Prioritizing the child’s best interest in all administrative and judicial decisions that concern a child or adolescent and their family.
11. Prioritize the principle of family unity, and forego with the Zero
Tolerance policy and the policies and practices that criminalize migrants and their families in any circumstances
12. Continue with the implementation of actions aimed at reunifying families that have been separated
13. Taking any measures to protect defenders of the rights of migrant persons, asylum-seekers, and refugees, as well as the right of these defenders to do their job and to effectively access justice. Immediately ending threats and acts of harassment against these defenders.
14. Creating national and transnational mechanisms that enable an effective, timely identification of missing or dead migrant persons, and to make it possible to investigate those cases, punish anyone responsible for them, and provide the applicable reparations.
15. Ratifying the American Convention on Human Rights, the
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
INTERNATIONAL IMPARTIAL AND INDEPENDENT MECHANISM FOR MYANMARMYO AUNG Myanmar
INTERNATIONAL IMPARTIAL AND INDEPENDENT MECHANISM FOR MYANMAR
Finding Justice for the Rohingya through the ICC and Independent Mechanism
https://www.ejiltalk.org/a-turning-point-in-the-pursuit-of-accountability-for-international-crimes/
An Independent Mechanism for Myanmar: A Turning Point in the Pursuit of Accountability for International Crimes
Published on October 1, 2018 Author: Polina Levina Mahnad
https://burmese.voanews.com/a/un-chief-appoints-investigation-head-for-myanmar/4859645.html
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရး ယႏၱရားအဖဲြ႕ ဥကၠဌ ကုလခန္႔အပ္
http://opiniojuris.org/2018/12/06/myanmars-ongoing-independent-mechanism-careful-planning-needed/
Myanmar’s Ongoing Independent Mechanism:
Careful Planning Needed
https://www.icj.org/hrc39-myanmarres/
Myanmar: creation of UN mechanism a step toward accountability
http://globaljusticecenter.net/press-center/press-releases/959-statement-on-the-creation-of-the-iiim-for-myanmar
Press Releases
Statement on the Creation of the IIIM for Myanmar
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/world/asia/myanmar-un-human-rights.html
Human Rights Council Ratchets Up
Pressure on Myanma
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/27/accountability-mechanism-needed-break-cycle-impunity-myanmar
Accountability Mechanism Needed to Break the Cycle of Impunity in Myanmar
Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on Myanmar
https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Accountability-Mechanisms.pdf
https://harvardhrj.com/2019/02/atrocities-documented-accountability-needed-finding-justice-for-the-rohingya-through-the-icc-and-independent-mechanism-by-paul-r-williams-jessica-levy/
Atrocities Documented, Accountability Needed: Finding Justice for the Rohingya through the ICC and Independent Mechanism, By Paul R. Williams & Jessica Levy
Donald trump’s border wall could have deadly consequencesSusana Gallardo
Donald Trump wants America to build a permanent wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. "We'll have a great wall. We'll call it the Great Wall of Trump," the real estate mogul told Fox Business recently.
If that ever happens, the consequences could be deadly for the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who attempt to cross the border each year, many of whom are unlikely to be deterred by even the greatest of walls.
Tightening security at America's southern border will inevitably make it more difficult to illegally traverse. But immigration and security experts warn that any effort to seal off the border will also make conditions more dangerous for the unauthorized immigrants who still try to make it over.
15 recommendations wer given including:
1. Protecting the right to request and be granted asylum.
2. Adapt national legislation to international standards
3. Adapt internal migration norms, policies, procedures and protocols to international norms and standards
4. Ending fast-track deportations and automatic returns
5. Adopt necessary measures in order to safeguard the right to counsel of migrant persons, asylum-seekers, and refugees
6. Ending lengthy migration detentions and taking any measures necessary to implement alternatives to deprivation of liberty
7. Ensuring conditions of detention that meet international standards for deprivation of liberty
8. Closing the processing centers supervised by the CBP.
9. Ending the practice of detaining children and adolescents in detention centers.
10. Prioritizing the child’s best interest in all administrative and judicial decisions that concern a child or adolescent and their family.
11. Prioritize the principle of family unity, and forego with the Zero
Tolerance policy and the policies and practices that criminalize migrants and their families in any circumstances
12. Continue with the implementation of actions aimed at reunifying families that have been separated
13. Taking any measures to protect defenders of the rights of migrant persons, asylum-seekers, and refugees, as well as the right of these defenders to do their job and to effectively access justice. Immediately ending threats and acts of harassment against these defenders.
14. Creating national and transnational mechanisms that enable an effective, timely identification of missing or dead migrant persons, and to make it possible to investigate those cases, punish anyone responsible for them, and provide the applicable reparations.
15. Ratifying the American Convention on Human Rights, the
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
INTERNATIONAL IMPARTIAL AND INDEPENDENT MECHANISM FOR MYANMARMYO AUNG Myanmar
INTERNATIONAL IMPARTIAL AND INDEPENDENT MECHANISM FOR MYANMAR
Finding Justice for the Rohingya through the ICC and Independent Mechanism
https://www.ejiltalk.org/a-turning-point-in-the-pursuit-of-accountability-for-international-crimes/
An Independent Mechanism for Myanmar: A Turning Point in the Pursuit of Accountability for International Crimes
Published on October 1, 2018 Author: Polina Levina Mahnad
https://burmese.voanews.com/a/un-chief-appoints-investigation-head-for-myanmar/4859645.html
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရး ယႏၱရားအဖဲြ႕ ဥကၠဌ ကုလခန္႔အပ္
http://opiniojuris.org/2018/12/06/myanmars-ongoing-independent-mechanism-careful-planning-needed/
Myanmar’s Ongoing Independent Mechanism:
Careful Planning Needed
https://www.icj.org/hrc39-myanmarres/
Myanmar: creation of UN mechanism a step toward accountability
http://globaljusticecenter.net/press-center/press-releases/959-statement-on-the-creation-of-the-iiim-for-myanmar
Press Releases
Statement on the Creation of the IIIM for Myanmar
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/world/asia/myanmar-un-human-rights.html
Human Rights Council Ratchets Up
Pressure on Myanma
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/27/accountability-mechanism-needed-break-cycle-impunity-myanmar
Accountability Mechanism Needed to Break the Cycle of Impunity in Myanmar
Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on Myanmar
https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Accountability-Mechanisms.pdf
https://harvardhrj.com/2019/02/atrocities-documented-accountability-needed-finding-justice-for-the-rohingya-through-the-icc-and-independent-mechanism-by-paul-r-williams-jessica-levy/
Atrocities Documented, Accountability Needed: Finding Justice for the Rohingya through the ICC and Independent Mechanism, By Paul R. Williams & Jessica Levy
Donald trump’s border wall could have deadly consequencesSusana Gallardo
Donald Trump wants America to build a permanent wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. "We'll have a great wall. We'll call it the Great Wall of Trump," the real estate mogul told Fox Business recently.
If that ever happens, the consequences could be deadly for the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who attempt to cross the border each year, many of whom are unlikely to be deterred by even the greatest of walls.
Tightening security at America's southern border will inevitably make it more difficult to illegally traverse. But immigration and security experts warn that any effort to seal off the border will also make conditions more dangerous for the unauthorized immigrants who still try to make it over.
Donald Trump wants to build an "impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall" between the US and México.
But how tall? How powerful? How beautiful? The Republican candidate's big ideas can be small on detail, and the wall is no exception.
The US-Mexico border is about 1,900 miles (3100 km) long and traverses all sorts of terrain from empty, dusty desert to the lush and rugged surroundings of the Rio Grande.
• Burma has the population of 60 millions mainly Buddhists. Burma shares border with China, India, Bangladesh, Laos and Thailand.
• Human beings live in the world but they have the different religions, faiths, perceptions, beliefs, traditions, customs and languages. We are part of the family of humans but all humans are not Burmese.
• Neither the U.N. nor any country's government has the right to impose laws or regulations on us. Our entire Constitution describes how to function as one nation.
• For example, private property has boundaries called property lines. The property owner is responsible for everything within those lines. No unauthorized persons have the right to cross over those lines. Likewise, no unauthorized persons have the right to enter our country. We have a responsibility to limit how many people may enter. We have the responsibility to determine whether or not they will be an asset to our nation.
• If I, as a property owner, protect animals on my property, I will prevent a hunter from trespassing and hunting them. It's the same situation with our country's immigration laws. If my personal property is so large that I can't protect it from unwanted people or animals from coming in, then I fence it off.
• Burma is facing illegal immigrants intruding from Bangladesh for decades. These illegal Bengalis from Bangladesh created fake ethnic name called (so-called Rohingya) unlawfully claiming part of Burma as theirs, committing crimes against humanity and massacring on local indigenous Arakanese of Burma because we can’t control the border securely in the past.
• Tackling corruption of immigration officials, proper and effective patrolling of borders and erecting a barrier along with Bangladesh is recommended. The defence of our citizens is the very first obligation of our government. It must be done at any cost. So, I personally support that there should be the borders between nations and I strongly believe in national sovereignty.
With the widespread concerns about cyber terrorism and the frequent use of the term
“cyber terrorism” at the present time, many international organisations have made efforts
to combat this threat. Since cyber terrorism is an international crime, local regulations
alone are not able to defend against such attacks; they require a transnational response.
Corruption is one of the primary facilitators of refugee smuggling. In order to fight this crime, and help refugees safely realise their rights, the international community must understand the intricate connections between corruption and refugee smuggling.
OECD's response to the refugee crisis http://www.oecd.org/migration-insights/
OECD work to fight corruption http://www.oecd.org/corruption/
This presentation centers on a "Miscellaneous Provision" in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which requires U.S. companies that use tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold in their products to disclose whether or not they are sourcing "conflict minerals" and, if so, how they are implementing supply chain due diligence. Affecting a plethora of companies from smartphone to shoe manufacturers, Bayer’s cost model has the price tag of this law at USD 8 billion for U.S.-based companies alone, a model that was largely picked up by the SEC as well as the claimants in the subsequent lawsuit against the SEC. "What, there's tin in my shoe?" you ask.
In the Congo, where the law is known as the "Obama law," the future of thousands of people – a population that has seen 5.4 million perish in what has been the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II – is, for better or for worse, affected. How does the law seem to be playing out? What, if anything, does this new legal precedent of corporate disclosure on an international affairs issue mean for sectors where systemic human rights abuses are entrenched through informal commodity extraction and obscure supply chains, such as with the palm oil (e.g. Indonesia), seafood (e.g. Thailand), cotton (e.g. Mali), and cocoa (e.g. Cote d'Ivoire) industries?
PhD Candidate Chris Bayer is an international development practitioner with ten years of work experience in Africa. As a consultant for the Payson Center, he was instrumental in designing and executing a number of research and capacity building projects in a variety of areas such as ARV management and child labor and in 2012 lectured at the American University of Nigeria. He is currently writing his dissertation on child labor monitoring in Ghana and is also substantively contributing to the discussion surrounding conflict minerals.
Donald Trump wants to build an "impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall" between the US and México.
But how tall? How powerful? How beautiful? The Republican candidate's big ideas can be small on detail, and the wall is no exception.
The US-Mexico border is about 1,900 miles (3100 km) long and traverses all sorts of terrain from empty, dusty desert to the lush and rugged surroundings of the Rio Grande.
• Burma has the population of 60 millions mainly Buddhists. Burma shares border with China, India, Bangladesh, Laos and Thailand.
• Human beings live in the world but they have the different religions, faiths, perceptions, beliefs, traditions, customs and languages. We are part of the family of humans but all humans are not Burmese.
• Neither the U.N. nor any country's government has the right to impose laws or regulations on us. Our entire Constitution describes how to function as one nation.
• For example, private property has boundaries called property lines. The property owner is responsible for everything within those lines. No unauthorized persons have the right to cross over those lines. Likewise, no unauthorized persons have the right to enter our country. We have a responsibility to limit how many people may enter. We have the responsibility to determine whether or not they will be an asset to our nation.
• If I, as a property owner, protect animals on my property, I will prevent a hunter from trespassing and hunting them. It's the same situation with our country's immigration laws. If my personal property is so large that I can't protect it from unwanted people or animals from coming in, then I fence it off.
• Burma is facing illegal immigrants intruding from Bangladesh for decades. These illegal Bengalis from Bangladesh created fake ethnic name called (so-called Rohingya) unlawfully claiming part of Burma as theirs, committing crimes against humanity and massacring on local indigenous Arakanese of Burma because we can’t control the border securely in the past.
• Tackling corruption of immigration officials, proper and effective patrolling of borders and erecting a barrier along with Bangladesh is recommended. The defence of our citizens is the very first obligation of our government. It must be done at any cost. So, I personally support that there should be the borders between nations and I strongly believe in national sovereignty.
With the widespread concerns about cyber terrorism and the frequent use of the term
“cyber terrorism” at the present time, many international organisations have made efforts
to combat this threat. Since cyber terrorism is an international crime, local regulations
alone are not able to defend against such attacks; they require a transnational response.
Corruption is one of the primary facilitators of refugee smuggling. In order to fight this crime, and help refugees safely realise their rights, the international community must understand the intricate connections between corruption and refugee smuggling.
OECD's response to the refugee crisis http://www.oecd.org/migration-insights/
OECD work to fight corruption http://www.oecd.org/corruption/
This presentation centers on a "Miscellaneous Provision" in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which requires U.S. companies that use tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold in their products to disclose whether or not they are sourcing "conflict minerals" and, if so, how they are implementing supply chain due diligence. Affecting a plethora of companies from smartphone to shoe manufacturers, Bayer’s cost model has the price tag of this law at USD 8 billion for U.S.-based companies alone, a model that was largely picked up by the SEC as well as the claimants in the subsequent lawsuit against the SEC. "What, there's tin in my shoe?" you ask.
In the Congo, where the law is known as the "Obama law," the future of thousands of people – a population that has seen 5.4 million perish in what has been the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II – is, for better or for worse, affected. How does the law seem to be playing out? What, if anything, does this new legal precedent of corporate disclosure on an international affairs issue mean for sectors where systemic human rights abuses are entrenched through informal commodity extraction and obscure supply chains, such as with the palm oil (e.g. Indonesia), seafood (e.g. Thailand), cotton (e.g. Mali), and cocoa (e.g. Cote d'Ivoire) industries?
PhD Candidate Chris Bayer is an international development practitioner with ten years of work experience in Africa. As a consultant for the Payson Center, he was instrumental in designing and executing a number of research and capacity building projects in a variety of areas such as ARV management and child labor and in 2012 lectured at the American University of Nigeria. He is currently writing his dissertation on child labor monitoring in Ghana and is also substantively contributing to the discussion surrounding conflict minerals.
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Running Head: BORDER SECURITY1
BORDER SECURITY2
Border Security
Name
Institution
Border Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plays a broad role in providing public security in the country. The missions of homeland security revolve around cyber security, disaster management, border security, and immigration (White, 2016). The department has been in existence since 2002 after the 9/11 attack and has remained to be a critical pillar in protecting the United States. The department gets allocated a budget every year to facilitate its operations. One issue of concern in Homeland Security is border security. The role of homeland security in providing border security is to ensure that while there is lawful travel at the border, illegal movement of substances such as drugs and weapons (White, 2016). Border security has a significant impact on the safety and economy of the country. The countries bordering the United States are Canada and Mexico, and rivers and lakes, which are substantial in the economic state of the country.
One state in the U.S. that borders Mexico is New Mexico. Recently, the U.S President Donald Trump proposed the building of a perimeter wall that separates Mexico and the United States (Payan, 2016). The border between the two countries stretches to about one thousand and nine hundred miles from the south of Texas to the Pacific Ocean. As much as the proposal is meant to control the movement of illegal migrants from Mexico to the United States, a lot of debate has ensued concerning the practicality of the project. Some parts of the border have been fenced to restrict illegal immigrants from crossing into the United States (Payan, 2016). Another measure taken by the government is the deployment of border patrol personnel who are equipped with resources such as motion sensors and drones that help them to patrol the border throughout.
Measures put into restricting illegal immigrants from entering the United States have been influenced by some significant security threats that arise due to the movement of people in and out of the country. All the operations to secure the border have been tied to the immigration laws, which require the country to protect its soil and keep the citizens safe. As noted, a large number of undocumented immigrants pose a significant threat to society. The number affects cohesion in the nation and makes it hard to regulate the economy, which assimilates immigrants that are either employed or run their businesses (Payan, 2016). At one point in the past, a state of emergency was declared by the governor of New Mexico over illegal immigration due to the increase in the number of undocumented immigrants. President Bush pushed for the move signed the Act to establish a secure fence that combated unlawful immigration. One area that illegal immigration has affected in the states neighboring Mexico and the country at large is the economy.
One argument that has be ...
1. Compare the similarities and differences between the external b.docxjackiewalcutt
1. Compare the similarities and differences between the external borders of New Europe and the U.S. - Mexico border.
The European Union concluded the Schengen Agreements in 1995, which outlines the steps the EU takes when dealing with their borders. The concept was to allow free movement of European workers to move and settle in any EU State. Part of it states that “Any person, irrespective of nationality, may cross the internal borders without being subjected to border checks.” [1] There is a stipulation that border police can ask for identification during “spot checks”. If there is a serious security risk to an EU state, that state can introduce border security measures but must inform the European Parliament and Commission.
While tightening controls of external borders, rules were implemented in the agreement such as types of visas needed and how the checks at external borders have to be done, improved police cooperation including the right to cross-border surveillance, and a strong judicial cooperation through a faster extradition system and transfer of enforcement of criminal judgments.
EU’s Smart Borders plan is to improve the management of the external borders, fight against unequal immigration and provide information on people whose visas have expired but have not left, as well as facilitate border crossings for prescreened frequent third country national travelers. [2]
Like the EU, the US and Mexico have agreements on SMART Borders to help ease the flow of people and goods as well as secure the borders by blending efficient border management with state-of-the-art advanced technology. Rules are set in place to help facilitate the crossing of daily workers into the US and those going to Mexico to work at US plants.
Unlike the EU, the US/Mexican government do not have a system for cross border surveillance cooperation nor can any US or Mexico law enforcement agency cross each other’s borders in pursuit of a criminal. Also, the US and Mexico judicial systems are entirely different which makes transferring criminal judgments non-existent.
2. Has your perception of homeland security changed since taking this course? Why or why not? What was and what is now your understanding of border protection? Fully explain your response using course resources and outside resources.
Truthfully, my perception of Homeland Security is a bloated bureaucracy which at times is inept, bad leadership, interagency non-cooperation, and political restraints. Although there are aspects of Homeland Security that have proved effective, the knee-jerk reaction of past and current administrations in the White House does not provide me with the confidence that this overhaul was necessary to the extent that it is today.
In the past, border protection had more to do with trying to control illegal immigration and drug smuggling. Now border protection includes trying to keep terrorists from crossing the border, protect US citizens along the border from the drug cartels wh ...
Securing the United States-Mexico Border An On-Going Dilem.docxkenjordan97598
Securing the United States-Mexico Border:
An On-Going Dilemma
Karina J. Ordóñez
INTRODUCTION
For decades, the United States federal government has developed and implemented
border security strategies to counter illegal cross-border activity. While some strategies
have alleviated the influx of illegal immigration to certain geographic areas, increased
border controls in these locations have made other, less controlled areas of the border
more vulnerable. Rising crime rates, discarded debris, increased apprehension rates,
and growing public scrutiny in these less secure areas provide clear evidence that border
security is at once a social, an economic, and a national security issue.
Prior to 9/11, the United States Border Patrol (USBP) had established security efforts
along the international border. Since then, however, the constant flow of unauthorized
migrants and “the increasing mobility and destructive potential of modern terrorism has
required the United States to rethink and rearrange fundamentally its systems for
border…security.”1 Yet, despite the border security efforts of the Bush Administration
and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the problem persists
and continues to worsen, particularly along the Arizona-Sonora border (ASB). There is a
critical need to rethink border security systems, particularly along the Southwest border,
that leads observers to ponder: who is primarily responsible for securing our borders?
What is the USBP doing to secure the border given the additional threat of terrorism?2
Defining Borders
In order to articulate functional definitions, the “border” refers to the 2,000 mile geo-
political divide between the United States and Mexico. However, for purposes of this
paper, the “border” is specifically the international border between the State of Arizona,
United States and the State of Sonora, Mexico. The 377-mile Arizona-Sonora Border
(ASB) is a portion of one of the world’s busiest international boundaries and, as such, an
overwhelming number of cross-border illegal and legal activities occur there daily.3
Although there is a geo-political border, a full understanding of the complexities and
dynamics of the ASB requires recognition and analysis of the communities on both sides
of the border. The economic dependency, and the environmental and cultural ties
between these border communities, adds a multifaceted dynamic and dimension to
understanding the ASB. This cultural, social, and economic region has received
recognition from governments and the public; therefore, to encompass these intrinsic
interdependencies, the term “border region” was officially recognized in 1983 in the La
Paz Agreement. The border region includes 100 kilometers (67 miles) north and south
of the geopolitical divide between the United States and Mexico.4 The border region has
a population of approximately three million people, and it continues to grow
exponentially .
A lo largo de sus 16 páginas, este documento desglosa los factores amenazantes percibidos en varias tipologías (actores estatales externos, organizaciones extremistas violentas y organizaciones criminales transnacionales) y detalla a continuación cuál es el papel de las fuerzas armadas del país frente a cada uno de estos problemas, en virtud de la Estrategia Nacional de Defensa (NDS, por sus siglas en Inglés).
Akoo, Duncan O. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2
Akoo, Duncan O.
Savannah State University
Homeland Security Emergency Management (HSEM)
Dr. Nojang E.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hunter, T. B. "Targeted Killing: Self-Defense, Preemption, and the War on Terrorism." Journal
of Strategic Security 2, no. 2 (2010): 1-52. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.2.2.1
Hunter is portraying the “justification” of the western occupying regions of importance to them world over including the Middle East and taking out anyone who is an enemy to their ideologies and people. He differentiates “targeted killing,” from assassination saying, “The premeditated, preemptive, and intentional killing of an individual or individuals known or believed to represent a present and/or future threat to the safety and security of a state through affiliation with terrorist groups or individuals,” is what targeted killing is.
Hunter also ties the relationship between targeted killing and international terrorism as it relates in today’s world with affected states mandate to protect their people. International terrorism after 9/11 has mainly been in the form of suicide bombing and operating in foreign soil results in decline in targeted killing especially in Middle East. Nations have been reluctant to formalize policies, resulting in limited literature relating to targeted killing. He concludes by saying that targeted killing is not ending anytime soon. If states see the need for self-defense, killing will be done. Since there is no formal legal document defining the issue, UN, Hague and other centers of international legal orders will remain at loggerheads.
Karimi, Y; Cimbura, A; and Loza, W. "Assessing the Prevalence of Middle Eastern
Ideologies among some Iranians. "Journal of Strategic Security12, no. 3 (2019): 157-169. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.12.3.1719 Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol12/iss3/4
In their efforts to show that religion impacts extremism, Karimi, Ciumbura and Loza takes the survey avenue to sample Iranians and compare their results against previously gathered data from religious groups from other parts of the world. Similar, to previous results, the current results indicated that Iranian Muslims scored significantly higher than the sampled Christians and Atheists. However, the score of total ATRS and its subscale for Muslims of Iran was significantly less compared to Muslims from other parts of the world.
Extremism and violent acts motivated by religious beliefs are not a new phenomenon and are not restricted to one religion or one region of the world. Several scholars reported on the magnitude and extent of ideologically Based Terrorism post 9/11. For example, in 2006, it was estimated that over 1,000 terrorist organizations were active in more than one hundred countries.5 From 2001 to 2007 terrorists have attempted over thirty attacks against European Union countries.6 From 2002 to 2005, an average of four terrorist.
Akoo, Duncan O. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY2Akoo, .docxdaniahendric
Akoo, Duncan O. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2
Akoo, Duncan O.
Savannah State University
Homeland Security Emergency Management (HSEM)
Dr. Nojang E.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hunter, T. B. "Targeted Killing: Self-Defense, Preemption, and the War on Terrorism." Journal
of Strategic Security 2, no. 2 (2010): 1-52. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.2.2.1
Hunter is portraying the “justification” of the western occupying regions of importance to them world over including the Middle East and taking out anyone who is an enemy to their ideologies and people. He differentiates “targeted killing,” from assassination saying, “The premeditated, preemptive, and intentional killing of an individual or individuals known or believed to represent a present and/or future threat to the safety and security of a state through affiliation with terrorist groups or individuals,” is what targeted killing is.
Hunter also ties the relationship between targeted killing and international terrorism as it relates in today’s world with affected states mandate to protect their people. International terrorism after 9/11 has mainly been in the form of suicide bombing and operating in foreign soil results in decline in targeted killing especially in Middle East. Nations have been reluctant to formalize policies, resulting in limited literature relating to targeted killing. He concludes by saying that targeted killing is not ending anytime soon. If states see the need for self-defense, killing will be done. Since there is no formal legal document defining the issue, UN, Hague and other centers of international legal orders will remain at loggerheads.
Karimi, Y; Cimbura, A; and Loza, W. "Assessing the Prevalence of Middle Eastern
Ideologies among some Iranians. "Journal of Strategic Security12, no. 3 (2019): 157-169. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.12.3.1719 Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol12/iss3/4
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Border security of the southern parts of both the us and the european union
1. BORDER SECURITY OF THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF US THE EUROPEAN UNION
Border Security of the Southern Parts of US the European Union
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Introduction
The situation of security along the United States -Mexico border without a doubt ranks
as one of the most extremely charged subjects of public debate and discussion in both the
United States and Mexico for the past several years. Concerns regarding potential threats
posed by those entering the United States illegally, global terrorism, and fears that
skyrocketing hostility in Mexico might extended into the United States have led to remarkable
policy changes and important new investments by the United States to put measure into place
to protect the border1. Debates on border security cannot be completely disentangled from or
effectively attended to in isolation from other policy fields such as trade and the environment.
The promise of increased commerce and free trade among the United States and Mexico has
never been stronger, but ironically, fears about border security have also slowed economic
incorporation and had a discordant consequence on border societies.
Discussion
Addressing the intricate interplay involving prosperity and security at the border is
further made difficult by the perplexing assortment of overlying networks of local agencies
state and federal, given the responsibility of keeping the border area and the two countries
safe. Different policies such as the United States’ war on global terrorism; free trade accords
such as NAFTA and the imminent Trans-Pacific Partnership; United States’ immigration
strategy; the Mexican federal government’s policy to deal with organized crime; the Merida
Initiative; police and judicial organization reform in Mexico; a swiftly shifting governmental
1 Bender, S. (2012). Run for the border: Vice and virtue in U.S.-Mexico border crossings.
New York: New York University Press.
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architecture; building cross-border and interagency alliance and trust; trade facilitation and
border management all take place in some fashion at the border sometimes efficiently and
effectively, and in other cases very inefficiently. All this has taken place in a situation in
which United States-Mexico mutual relations have turned out to be both more mutual and
more contentious at the same time.
For the duration of the months and years subsequent the 9/11 terrorist attacks, United
States extensive and reasonably porous and unprotected borders, predominantly the United
States-Mexico Border was drawn intensely into the state conversation about national security.
Border security became part of the general scrutiny and rethinking of United States national
security susceptibilities, which included transportation systems and other vital infrastructure
security. Ironically, the 9/11 terrorists did not go into the United States over the southern or
northern border but rather entered legally on immigrant and student visas. Nonetheless, fears
that united state borders could be susceptible to terrorist incursions have led to a number of
significant policy resolutions.
Major reinforcement of the border with supplementary staff, infrastructure, and
equipment, to make the entrance more difficult became the most important way policy-makers
sought after to address apparent border vulnerabilities. Along the way, these fears were
conflated with an increasing call for limiting immigration policy, and the proposed sealing of
the border to deny entry to undocumented migrants, criminals and to bring to an end the
exploding violence in Mexico from crossing into the United States2. Regardless of these
2 NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Security and Cross/Border Cooperation in the EU,
the Black Sea Region and Southern Caucasus, Ergun, A., İsaxanlı, H., & IOS Press. (2013).
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concerns, a variety of public announcements, such as speeches, testimony, among others, on
the part of federal government officials in different agencies state a common subject: no
considerable terrorist risk to the United States has turned up in Mexico nor infiltrated the
United States-Mexico border since the year two thousand and one.
The president of the United States, in a bid to secure the country’s borders, has doubled
the number of Border Patrol agents subsequently making the security in the border as strong
as it had never been before. More work, however is to be done as the President’s actions gives
law enforcement the tools they need to make the communities safer from crime. And by
improving the country’s infrastructure and technology, the President’s proposal continues to
reinforce the United States ability to eliminate criminals and detain and take legal action on
threats to the national security.
Policies to strengthen border security and infrastructure have also been put into place so
as to fortify and improve infrastructure at ports of entry, facilitate public-private partnerships
meant at realizing an increase in investment in foreign visitor processing, and persists
supporting the utilization of technologies that assist in securing the maritime borders and land
of the United States. Additional policies to Combat transnational crime have been employed
that have led to the creation of new criminal penalties devoted to fighting transnational
criminal organizations that smuggle people and that traffic in drugs, weapons, and money
Security and cross-border cooperation in the EU, the Black Sea Region and Southern
Caucasus. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
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across the borders. It also expands the extent of current law to permit for the confiscation3.
Through this approach, the United States will strengthen its efforts to deny criminal
organizations, including those with their operations along the Southwest border, of their
infrastructure and profits.
The United States has also improved partnerships with border communities and law
enforcement in order to expand its ability to work with its cross-border law enforcement
partners. The people’s cooperation and trust are key to successful law enforcement. To this
end, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has established border
community liaisons along the Southern and Northern borders to develop collaboration and
communication with border communities, increase funding to tribal government partners to
decrease illegal activity on tribal lands, and fortify training on civil liberties and civil rights
for Department of Homeland Security immigration officers.
Crack down on criminal networks engaging in visa and passport fraud and human
smuggling has also been a vital strategy in securing the United States borders. The creation of
hard-hitting criminal penalties for trafficking in passports and immigration documents and
plots to deceive, including those who prey on vulnerable immigrants through notary's scam,
has been implemented. There has also been an increase in the strengthening of penalties to
combat human smuggling rings.
For the first time, Department of Homeland Security unmanned aerial capabilities now
covers the entire Southwest border, from California to Texas, providing significant above
3 Romero, F. (2008). Hyperborder: The contemporary U.S.-Mexico border and its future.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
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ground surveillance support to personnel on the ground. Department of Homeland Security
has also accomplished six hundred and forty-nine miles of fencing out of nearly six hundred
and fifty-two miles intended to be fenced4. Immigration of the Customs and Enforcement
(ICE), the arm of Department of Homeland Security responsible for immigration-related
investigations, has increased the number of Federal agents dispatched on the Southwest
border. These supplementary personnel are working in conjunction with the Department of
Justice (DOJ) to discover, interrupt, and take apart criminal organizations, to facilitate
collaboration between the Mexican and the United States law enforcement authorities on
enforcement and investigations operations, and to track down and prevent cartel violence and
fewer people are attempting to cross our borders illegally.
In the Twenty-First Century Initiative of the border, the United States by making
succinct collaboration with the Mexican Government to advance harmonization in financing,
building, planning, and operating bi-national infrastructure; to improve cross-border business
and ties while managing common threats of both countries; and to augment law enforcement
collaboration to disrupt criminal flows and improve public security.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has formed the Office of the Non-Governmental
Organization in Liaison with the Commissioner’s Office, which works directly with CBP to
train the traveling stakeholders and public. Moreover, CBP executed a national Border
Community Liaison Program in all of the twenty Border Patrol Sectors and the Border Patrol
Academy for the society to be trained more about the Border Patrol. These liaisons center
4 In Gerdes, L. I. (2014). Should the US close its borders?
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principally on outreach with community groups and help law enforcement understand the
concerns and views of people living in border towns.
The ability to move freely within the European Union by its citizens is an essential right
guaranteed by the Treaties. It is realized through the area of freedom, justice and security
without internal borders. Lifting internal borders necessitates fortified management of the
Union’s external borders as well as controlled entry and residence of non-European Union
nationals, including through a common immigration and asylum policy5.
The notion of free movement of individuals was brought about by the signing of the
Schengen Agreement in the year nineteen-eighty-five and the consequent Schengen
Convention in the year nineteen ninety, which commenced the elimination of border controls
among participating countries. Being part of the European Union legal and institutional
structure, Schengen cooperation has progressively been expanded to include most European
Union Member States, as well as some non- European Union countries.
The Mediterranean Sea, however, has long been a key avenue for smugglers of human
beings, from sub-Saharan Africans who pass through North Africa and North Africans, into
the European Union’s borderless “Schengen area.” With the descend of Tunisian Dictator
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the armed uprising in opposition to Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi in
Libya, the problem on the European Union’s southern maritime borders in early two thousand
5 European Commission. (2006). Communication from the Commission to the Council:
Reinforcing the management of the European Union's Southern Maritime Borders.
Luxembourg: EUR-OP.
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and eleven seemed to justify the European Union’s external border control agency, Frontex,
officials’ reasoning.
According to Frontex and High UN Commissioner of the Refugees, the number of
migrants out of Tunisia and Libya to the Italian island surely increased and reached an
astonishing forty-one thousand by June. Through Operation Hermes, which commenced in
response to the crisis in the increase of refugees from Tunisia and Libya, Frontex acquired
support from fourteen member states in the form of sea vessels aircraft, technical personnel
and surveillance equipment. Its region of operation covered the whole southern coast of Italy.
Moreover, the surrounding islands were not left exceptional. Debriefing experts and
interviewers are the most crucial people who posted to the migrant detention centers such as
Crotone situated in Calabria, Caltanissetta and Trapani in Sicily, and Bari in Puglia.
Migration is another region where the European Union must in conjunction with the
Mediterranean countries. In the year two thousand and eleven, immigration from and through
the Mediterranean area accounted for nearly ninety-two percent, about one hundred and thirty
thousand people, of total immigration to the European Union from non- European Union
states.
This flood of immigrants and refugees fleeing instability in their own countries could
have a destabilizing consequence on recipient countries in the European Union, since more
refugees would cause greater damage on the social welfare structure, and would apply more
pressure on the economy as the number of unemployed workers increases6
6 Ceccorulli, M., & Labanca, N. (2014). The EU, migration and the politics of administrative
detention.
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At present, the European Union is working with nations in the Mediterranean to manage
immigration with the Euro-Med Migration III Project, which means to offer training to the
European Union’s Mediterranean partners to effectively manage their borders and avoid
illegal immigration. The project will put in place high level working groups, training sessions,
and will try to boost cooperation with ENPI countries on legal, economic migration.
The European Union is also working on managing illegal immigration by utilizing the
Mediterranean with several Cross Border Cooperation (CBC) Programs, which endeavor to
endorse economic and social development in the countries that form the border of the
European Union. In total, the European Union has allocated more than twenty-five million
pounds in funds for Mediterranean CBCs.
Thus, it is apparent that the European Union has a huge stake in immigration matters in
the Mediterranean region. As one of the largest net-senders of immigrants to the European
Union, this region must be vigilantly managed to make certain that illegal immigration is
hard, if not impossible. Due to its proximity to the Mediterranean region, the European Union
is inadvertently so much involved in the activities of the region. Because of this reason, any
major political shifts in the Mediterranean thus make it quite difficult for the European union
to properly police their southern borders in terms of controlling organized crime, the flow of
illegal migrates coming in through the southern borders to mention but a few.
The European Union, as a close neighbor, has several support programs for the
Mediterranean that endeavor to boost security and stability. The first of these is the Program
for Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Natural Disasters (PPRD South). This program
is dedicated to increasing the civil protection capacity of the Mediterranean countries at both
national and local levels and focuses on four key areas: Aiding in the establishment of
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efficient risk assessments; enhancing prevention and awareness measures through technical
assistance and training; boosting quick responses to disasters by enhancing the management
of warning systems and employing simulation exercises; and raising awareness within the
population of risk exposure, prevention, and response to at-risk areas.
The Euro-Med Justice II is another plan that endeavors at security sector improvement
in the Mediterranean. This program aids the countries of the Mediterranean with
administrative and institutional capacity and good governance in the field of justice, together
with the simplification of judicial proceedings, the modernization of justice systems, and
improved access to justice.” Finally, the European Union’s Euro-Med Police II Program
plans to reinforce police cooperation between police forces of the European Union and its
Mediterranean allies against all varieties of organized crime. This program holds training
sessions on improving collaboration between police forces and has structured a database for
police officers to distribute information and best practices.
By the year two thousand and five, the European Union established Frontex to take up
the task of guaranteeing its safety from outside threats. Based in Warsaw, its staff amounts to
three hundred people working as short-term agents, contracting agents or specialists seconded
from national governments (European Union, 2013). The European Union formed Frontex as
a bureau so that it can function autonomously. It has practically no capability, however,
running of operations without asking much support from member states, though it has of late
attained some border control assets. It, therefore, coordinates among member states to
accomplish operations that they support with human resources. Frontex’s budget prepared
annually has skyrocketed from six million Euros in the year two thousand and five to eighty-
eight million in the year two thousand and eleven.
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The European Union relies heavily on two approaches. The first is the mobility
partnerships agreements brokered by the European Commission. Moreover, it was done on
behalf of interested member states and non- European Union countries7. To date, accords have
been signed with Cape Verde, Georgia, and Moldova, and negotiations are in progress with
Senegal. They entrust the third country to boosting border security in exchange for European
help with developing the third country’s labor market to neutralize brain drain. The third
country may also obtain penchant in certain categories of provisional visas. The second
approach entails circular migration programs, the advocates of which emphasize that migrants
do not wish to inhabit permanently in their destination countries. Rather, they wish to journey
to wealthy countries to gain abilities that will assist them develop their communities back
home and to remit higher wages.
The European Union, therefore, has mechanisms in place mainly designed to encourage
seasonal migration for employment in agriculture. Additionally, other sectors like tourism or
hospitality were not left out. The temporary permit is valid for a predetermined number of
days or months, after which employees must return to their home countries.
Tendencies of convergence while comparing the policies put in place to curb illegal
immigrants by both nations were evident. On the one side, it is evident that the European
Union orients its reform initiative towards United States models. On the other side, also the
United States in parallel to its still not accomplished pursuit for an entirely watertight entry-
7 Holzhacker, R. L., & Luif, P. (2013). Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union:
Internal and External Dimensions of Increased Cooperation after the Lisbon Treaty.
Dordrecht: Springer.
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exit system has turned to substitute solutions outside the conventional border-related tool-set,
as a means to maintain the internal enforcement of immigration laws through the labor market
bears striking similarities to some of the European union’s approaches which recognize illegal
immigrants by controls at the workplace.
Another important United States move onto unknown territory was the elimination of
the so-called “Western Hemisphere exemption” by requiring passport or other forms of proof
of citizenship for all Mexican, Canadian and even United States travelers crossing United
States borders, including land borders. This bears similarities with the European Union’s
borderless “Schengen area.”
The major difference in the security at the border in both the European Union and the
United States is that in the United States, via its investigative arm, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) is responsible for border security. It ensures that the necessary personnel
are properly trained and deployed to the borders and is also responsible for the incarceration
of illegal immigrants8. On the side of the European Union, each member of the union is
responsible for its own border security, however, Frontex; whose agents are experts and
agents from the individual member nations, an agency responsible for the overall security of
the European border was established although it lacks the proper backing to effectively deal
with the issue.
In the analysis of the border security of both the southern part of America and in the
European Union, it is clearly evident that even though problems such as organized crime
terrorism, or migratory pressure may be universal, the solutions are however not necessarily
8 In Wilson, T. M., & In Donnan, H. (2012). A companion to border studies.
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the same. Too diverse are the starting conditions under the characteristics of state
governmental structures, constitutional values, and geographic neighborhood among other
factors to conceive a magic one size fits all solution. The direct transfer of foreign models
should, therefore, be considered with great care.
The European Union, United States relationship symbolizes such a case of uncertain
compatibility; though border security is a common apprehension for them, solutions will not
essentially fit both sides to the same degree. In terms of differences, there is first of all the
unilateral European Union dilemma of a yet up-and-coming union with incomplete structures
that the European Union has to resolve for itself. Although approval is gradually more
widespread that well-functioning external borders are vital not only from an economic and tax
revenue point of view but also to protect common security interests, the realistic
implementation of this insight still comes across numerous obstacles9.
It is thereby not enough just to make development in view of harmonizing border
security, but also essential that this practice takes place under the backing of autonomous
legitimacy and accountability. Only parliamentary and judicial control combined with the
know-how of data protection authorities are competent to adequately protect the people
against extreme imposition into their rights, in particular privacy.
There is in addition the question to what degree the United States notion largely marked
by its flawless entry-exit structure in reality qualifies as a model for European Union
development as defined by Future Group and Commission. Uncertainties towards its direct
9 In Dell'Orto, G., & In Birchfield, V. L. (2014). Reporting at the southern borders:
Journalism and public debates on immigration in the US and the EU.
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execution in Europe arise under various aspects, particularly to what degree it is similar in
temperament with European values. Recent debates in the framework of the transatlantic PNR
agreements and the High Level Group on Information Sharing have shown how complex it is
to achieve an all-inclusive transatlantic understanding this field.
Conclusion
The next dividing line has to do with geography: endless land borders and short-
distance maritime waters combined with strong migratory force symbolize a chief challenge
to any border even where prepared with hi-tech surveillance devices. This lesson taught to the
United States themselves by the recurring failure to shut off the Mexican border should be
critically taken to heart by the Europeans. Their border lines being longer, at least at the
moment less well equipped while exposed to bigger pressure, the European Union should
think twice before enacting massive investments in technology. Typically, enough, the United
States with its massive advance in border management and technology still spent substantial
resources on closing the last gaps, but with a yet unsure outcome. Spoofing of scan readers is
theoretically possible and therefore as likely to be used for getting around border controls as
long stretches of infrequently controlled borders10.
Rather than globally introducing foreign approaches, the European Union should also
keep in mind its traditional, particularly European techniques of migration control that rely on
second-line checks of ID-cards and work permits inside the territory. Fascinatingly enough
10 Brunet-Jailly, E. (2007). Borderlands: Comparing border security in North America and
Europe. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
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also the United States has developed an interest in internal control policies as shown by the
labor-market-oriented pilot project e-Verify.
If the convergence of systems is a rational transatlantic purpose, the point of
convergence should not be determined by a one-sided acceptance of American standards. In
view of recent United States strategy changes, it would seem likely that the most rewarding
encounter would take place somewhere in the middle in combining the European Union and
the United States standards.
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