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Data Flows, Online Privacy, and Trade Policy [Updated March 26, 2020]
From the Summary: "'Cross-border data flows' refers to the movement or transfer of information between computer servers across national borders. Such data flows enable people to transmit information for online communication, track global supply chains, share research, provide cross-border services, and support technological innovation. Ensuring open cross-border data flows has been an objective of Congress in recent trade agreements and in broader U.S. international trade policy. The free flow of personal data, however, has raised security and privacy concerns. U.S. trade policy has traditionally sought to balance the need for cross-border data flows, which often include personal data, with online privacy and security. Some stakeholders, including some Members of Congress, believe that U.S. policy should better protect personal data privacy and security, and have introduced legislation to set a national policy. Other policymakers and analysts are concerned about increasing foreign barriers to U.S. digital trade, including data flows."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Fefer, Rachel F.
2020-03-26
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Master Question List for COVID-19 (Caused by SARS-CoV-2): Weekly Report 25 March 2020
From the Foreword: "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is paying close attention to the evolving Coronavirus Infectious Disease (COVID-19) situation in order to protect our nation. DHS is working very closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), other federal agencies, and public health officials to implement public health control measures related to travelers and materials crossing our borders from the affected regions. [...] The Master Question List (MQL) is intended to quickly present the current state of available information to government decision makers in the operational response to COVID-19 and allow structured and scientifically guided discussions across the federal government without burdening them with the need to review scientific reports, and to prevent duplication of efforts by highlighting and coordinating research. The information contained in the following table has been assembled and evaluated by experts from publicly available sources to include reports and articles found in scientific and technical journals, selected sources on the internet, and various media reports. It is intended to serve as a 'quick reference' tool and should not be regarded as a comprehensive source of information, nor as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the DHS or the U.S. Government."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Science and Technology Directorate
2020-03-25
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Border Security: U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Management of a Temporary Facility in Texas Raised Concerns About Resources Used
From the Document: "Beginning in fall 2018, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) experienced a significant increase in the number of individuals apprehended at or between U.S. ports of entry along the southwest border. Apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol (Border Patrol) increased from nearly 400,000 individuals in fiscal year 2018 to over 850,000 in fiscal year 2019, an increase of 115 percent, according to CBP data. The increase in individuals apprehended resulted in overcrowded and difficult humanitarian conditions in CBP short-term processing and holding facilities. To help address this issue, in May 2019, CBP determined it needed a temporary soft-sided facility for processing and holding single adults in the El Paso Border Patrol sector, based on the significant increase in apprehensions in that sector."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-03-11
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Privacy Impact Assessment for the Visa Security Program - Pre-Adjudicated Threat Recognition Intelligence Operations Team (PATRIOT) Tracking System
From the Abstract: "The Visa Security Program - Pre-Adjudicated Threat Recognition Intelligence Operations Team (PATRIOT) is a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tracking system designed to support the activities of the ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Visa Security Program (VSP). ICE originally deployed VSP-PATRIOT in 2014, and it is operated by the Visa Security Coordination Center (VSCC), the primary national security and counterterrorism planning component for ICE, in partnership with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Department of State (DOS). VSP-PATRIOT allows authorized personnel from ICE, CBP, and DOS to identify applicants for U.S. visas who are ineligible to receive visas and inadmissible to the United States due to criminal history, terrorism-related associations or activity, other security-related offenses, or any other grounds of ineligibility or inadmissibility. ICE is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) in the interest of transparency as the VSPPATRIOT tracking system automates the system-to-system connections memorialized in the existing VSPTS-Net PIA. In addition, this PIA provides insight into the supplemental review of publicly available, open-source information performed with respect to a small subset of applicants."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
2020-03-10
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Department of Homeland Security: Border Security Status Report: Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2019 (Fiscal Year 2019 Report to Congress)
From the Legislative Language: "This report has been prepared pursuant to the direction in Senate Report 115-283 accompanying the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act (P.L. 116-6). Senate Report 115-283 includes the following provision: The Committee continues its requirement that the Department submit quarterly Border Security Status reports and data on the deportation of the parents of U.S.- born children semiannually, as in prior years."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Directorate for Management
2020-03-10
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Immigration Detention: Care of Pregnant Women in DHS Facilities, Report to Congressional Requesters
From the GAO [Government Accountability Office] Highlights: "In December 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) updated its policy on pregnant women, removing language that stated that pregnant women would generally not be detained except in extraordinary circumstances or as mandated by law. Within DHS, CBP [Customs and Border Protection] temporarily holds individuals in its facilities and processes them for further action, such as release or transfer to ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. ICE manages the nation's immigration detention system. ICE utilizes various facility types to detain individuals, such as those owned and operated by ICE and contract facilities. GAO was asked to review issues related to the care of pregnant women in DHS facilities. This report examines (1) what available data indicate about pregnant women detained or held in DHS facilities, (2) DHS policies and standards that address the care of pregnant women, and (3) what is known about the care provided to pregnant women in DHS facilities. GAO analyzed available DHS data and documents from calendar years 2015 through 2019, including detention data, inspection reports and data, and complaints; reviewed policies related to the care of pregnant women; and interviewed agency officials and three national non-governmental organizations. GAO also interviewed a non-generalizable sample of 14 pregnant women detained or released by DHS and five non-governmental organizations in four field locations that had the greatest number of detentions of pregnant women, among other things."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-03
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U.S. Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) Program [Updated February 26, 2020]
From the Document: "Congress passed the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zone Act (P.L. 73- 397, 19 U.S.C. §§81[a-u]) in 1934, which authorized the creation of the FTZ [Foreign-Trade Zone] Program. The intent of the program was to encourage international trade and increase U.S. exports. FTZs are designated areas of the United States into which zone users may import goods duty-free, subject to certain requirements, for warehousing or production purposes within the zones. Duties are collected when goods leave the zones for consumption in the United States and not when exported. Similar programs exist in many other countries. The FTZ Act assigns administrative duties to the FTZ Board, which establishes, operates, and maintains FTZs. The FTZ Board is chaired by the Secretary of Commerce. The Secretary of the Treasury serves as the Board's executive officer. The Secretary of Commerce appoints the Executive Secretary, who is supported by a staff of eight. The Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) advises the Board and enforces regulations, including protection and collection of tariff revenue."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Wong, Liana
2020-02-26
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Native American Issues: Examples of Certain Federal Requirements That Apply to Cultural Resources and Factors That Impact Tribal Consultation, Statement of Anna Maria Ortiz, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Testimony Before the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States, Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives
From the GAO [Government Accountability Office] Highlights: "Federal agencies are required in certain circumstances to consult with tribes on infrastructure projects and other activities--such as permitting natural gas pipelines--that may affect tribal natural and cultural resources. [...] The Secretary of Homeland Security has waived federal cultural resource laws that generally require federal agencies to consult with federally recognized tribes to ensure expeditious construction of barriers along the southern U.S. border. This testimony discusses examples of (1) federal laws and regulations that apply to Native American cultural resources and (2) factors that impact the effectiveness of federal agencies' tribal consultation efforts. It is based on reports GAO issued from July 2018 through November 2019 related to federal laws that apply to Native American cultural resources, tribal consultation for infrastructure projects, and border security. It also includes additional information about the consultation requirements in these cultural resource laws and regulations."
United States. Government Accountability Office
Ortiz, Anna Maria
2020-02-26
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Department of Homeland Security: Border Security Status Report: Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2019 (Fiscal Year 2019 Report to Congress)
From the Legislative Language: "This report has been prepared pursuant to the direction in Senate Report 115-283 accompanying the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act (P.L. 116-6). Senate Report 115-283 includes the following provision: The Committee continues its requirement that the Department submit quarterly Border Security Status reports and data on the deportation of the parents of U.S.- born children semiannually, as in prior years."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Directorate for Management
2020-02-25
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Mexico: Evolution of the Mérida Initiative, 2007-2020 [Updated February 19, 2020]
From the Document: "Congress remains concerned about the effects of organized-crime-related violence in Mexico on U.S. security interests and U.S. citizens' safety in Mexico. Homicides in Mexico have reached record levels in each of the last three years as criminal groups have fought for control of smuggling routes into the United States. A year into his term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is under pressure to develop a new security policy. The November 2019 killing of an extended family of dual citizens near the Arizona border in Mexico has led some Members of Congress to call for increased oversight of bilateral efforts. This product provides a succinct overview of the roughly $3.1 billion appropriated for the Mérida Initiative, López Obrador's security strategy, and how to assess bilateral security efforts."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Seelke, Clare Ribando
2020-02-19
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Roundtable: Are We Prepared? Protecting the U.S. from Global Pandemics [video]
From the Opening Statement of Ron Johnson: "The emergence of the novel coronavirus from Wuhan, China and its arrival on our doorstep shows the threat that pandemics pose to our nation. Already, around the world, this coronavirus has infected tens of thousands of people and killed hundreds. […] If we want to stop infectious diseases from becoming global problems, then we must ensure that our policies and procedures are thoughtfully developed and ready to go before the next infection crosses our borders. To achieve this goal, we must be able to answer some key questions: First and foremost, who's in charge? We have learned that an effective response to a pandemic requires a whole-of-government approach: health officials who identify and treat the disease, homeland security officials who protect against infection, and a host of others. But our response is not effective if it is not well-managed. Second, do we have clear strategies and plans to combat these global diseases and pandemics? Third, what lessons have we learned from previous responses? Have we addressed and resolved those issues?" Witnesses for this roundtable include the following: Nikki Clowers, Julie L. Gerberding, Scott Gottlieb, Luciana Borio, and Asha M. George. A transcript for the opening statement in this 2 hour, 12 minute, 32 second video is also available [https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Opening Statement-Johnson-2020-02-12.pdf].
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
2020-02-12
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Illicit Drug Smuggling Between Ports of Entry and Border Barriers [February 7, 2020]
From the Document: "Policy discussions around border security often involve questions about how illicit drugs flow into the United States. These include questions about the smugglers, types and quantities of illicit drugs crossing U.S. borders, primary entry points, and methods by which drugs are smuggled. Further, these discussions often center on the shared U.S.-Mexico border, as it is a major conduit through which illicit drugs flow. There are no comprehensive data on the total quantity of foreign-produced illicit drugs smuggled into the United States at or between official ports of entry (POEs) because these are drugs that have generally evaded seizure by border officials. In lieu of these data, officials, policymakers, and analysts sometimes rely on certain drug seizure data to help understand how and where illicit drugs are crossing U.S. borders. Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) indicate that, by weight, more marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl were seized at POEs than between them in FY2019. While available indicators suggest that drug seizures are more concentrated at POEs, it is the flow of drugs 'between' them that have been a primary topic of recent policy discussions around border security."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Finklea, Kristin M.
2020-02-07
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H. Rept. 116-394: Securing America's Ports Act, Report to Accompany H.R. 5273, February 6, 2020
From the Purpose and Summary: "H.R. 5273, the 'Securing America's Ports Act' was introduced to improve border security at land ports of entry by increasing the inspection rate of commercial and passenger vehicles entering the U.S. with non-intrusive inspection (NII) systems or similar technology. The bill requires the Secretary of Homeland Security (the Secretary) to develop a plan with incremental timeframes, cost estimates, and projected impacts of increasing expeditious scanning rates of vehicles to 100 percent at each land port of entry. The measure also directs the Department of Homeland Security (the Department or DHS) to conduct research and development of NII systems and refine their operational use in furtherance of the plan. The Secretary must also report annually to Congress on the Department's progress implementing its plan until it has achieved 100 percent scanning of commercial and passenger vehicles."
United States. Government Publishing Office
2020-02-06
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S. Rept. 116-212: Operation Stonegarden Authorization Act of 2019, Report to Accompany S. 2750, Including Cost Estimate of the Congressional Budget Office, February 4, 2020
From the Purpose and Summary: "S. 2750, the Operation Stonegarden Authorization Act, authorizes the Operation Stonegarden grant program for $110 million annually from fiscal year (FY) 2020 through FY 2024. Operation Stonegarden is a grant program operated under the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS or the Department) Homeland Security Grant Program, which provides grants to local, state and tribal law enforcement to improve cooperation and coordination with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and United States Border Patrol (USBP) on border security."
United States. Government Publishing Office
2020-02-04
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Southwest Border: Actions Needed to Improve DHS Processing of Families and Coordination Between DHS and HHS, Report to Congressional Requesters
From What GAO [Government Accountability Office] Found: "Data from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) indicate that apprehensions of family unit members (noncitizen children under 18 and their parents or legal guardians) grew from about 22 percent of total southwest border apprehensions in fiscal year 2016 to about 51 percent of such apprehensions during the first two quarters of fiscal year 2019--the most current data available. During this period, CBP data indicated that most apprehensions of family units--about 76 percent--occurred between ports of entry by the U.S. Border Patrol (Border Patrol). With regard to family separations, from April 2018 through March 2019, CBP data indicate it separated at least 2,700 children from their parents, processing them as unaccompanied alien children (UAC) and transferring them to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-02
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Southwest Border: Actions Needed to Address Fragmentation in DHS's Processes for Apprehended Family Members, Report to Congressional Requesters
From the GAO [Government Accountability Office] Highlights: "This report examines the extent to which DHS has identified, collected, documented, and shared information its components need to inform processes for family members apprehended at the border. GAO analyzed DHS documents; interviewed DHS officials; and visited DHS locations in Arizona, California and Texas, where CBP [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] apprehensions of family units increased in 2017. GAO compared the information gathered with leading practices in collaboration to evaluate DHS components' processes for apprehended family members."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-02
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Test Results for Write-Protected Drive: Apricorn ASK3 Secure Key 3.0 Firmware Version 0401
From the Introduction: "The Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) program is a joint project of the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), the National Institute of Justice, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Programs Office and Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). CFTT is supported by other organizations, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center; U.S. Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division Electronic Crimes Program; and the DHS Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Secret Service. The objective of the CFTT program is to provide measurable assurance to practitioners, researchers, and other applicable users that the tools used in computer forensics investigations provide accurate results. Accomplishing this requires the development of specifications and test methods for computer forensics tools and subsequent testing of specific tools against those specifications."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Science and Technology Directorate
2020-02
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CBP Enforcement Statistics FY 2019
From the Document: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection [CBP] is the nation's largest federal law enforcement agency charged with securing the nation's borders and facilitating international travel and trade. Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States. At the nation's more than 300 ports of entry, CBP officers have a complex mission with broad law enforcement authorities tied to screening all foreign visitors, returning American citizens and imported cargo that enters the U.S. Along the nation's borders, the United States Border Patrol and Air and Marine Operations are the uniformed law enforcement arms of CBP responsible for securing U.S. borders between ports of entry. [...][This document] is a summary of CBP enforcement actions related to inadmissibles, apprehensions, arrests of individuals with criminal convictions and individuals who have been apprehended multiple times crossing the border illegally."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
2020-01-30?
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CBP Enforcement Statistics Fiscal Year 2020
From the Document: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection [CBP] is the nation's largest federal law enforcement agency charged with securing the nation's borders and facilitating international travel and trade. Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States. [...] The following is a summary of CBP enforcement actions related to inadmissibles, apprehensions, arrests of individuals with criminal convictions and individuals who have been apprehended multiple times crossing the border illegally."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
2020-01-30
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U.S. Ports of Entry: Update on CBP Public-Private Partnership Programs (January 30, 2020)
From the Document: "On a typical day in fiscal year 2019, over 1.1 million passengers and pedestrians and over 78,000 truck, rail, and sea containers carrying goods worth approximately $7.3 billion entered the United States through 328 U.S. land, sea, and air ports of entry (POE), according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), CBP is the lead federal agency charged with a dual mission of keeping terrorists and their weapons, criminals and their contraband, and inadmissible aliens out of the country while facilitating the flow of legitimate international travel and trade through the nation's POEs. CBP's Office of Field Operations is responsible for conducting passenger and cargo processing activities related to security, trade, immigration, and agricultural inspection at the nation's POEs. [...] We conducted this performance audit from September 2019 to January 2020, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. We believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-01-30
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Independent Auditor's Report on the FY 2019 DoD Detailed Accounting Report for the Funds Obligated for National Drug Control Program Activities
From the Document: "Public Law 105-277, Title VII, 'Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 (the Act),' October 21, 1998, requires National Drug Control Program agencies to submit detailed accounting each year to the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). The detailed accounting reports all funds expended by the agencies for National Drug Control Program activities during the previous fiscal year. The Act also requires each agency Inspector General to authenticate the detailed accounting before it is submitted to the ONDCP Director (section 1704(d), title 21, United States Code). The ONDCP National Drug Control Strategy, 'FY 2020 Budget and Performance Summary,' May 2019, identified that the DoD enacted $1.4 billion in FY 2019 for DoD drug control spending. Additionally, $2.5 billion was transferred to the Drug Interdiction and Counterdrug Activities appropriation for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' construction of the Southwest Border barrier in support of the Department of Homeland Security."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
2020-01-30
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: S. 2750, Operation Stonegarden Authorization Act
This is the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on November 6, 2019. From the Document: "S. 2750 would codify Operation Stonegarden, a grant program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Under the program, FEMA awards grants to state and tribal law enforcement agencies to enhance security along the nation's borders and to improve coordination between those agencies and the federal government. The bill would authorize the appropriation of $110 million annually through 2024 to award grants. CBO assumes that the bill will be enacted in 2020. In 2020, FEMA received appropriations totaling $90 million to administer the program, thus, CBO estimates $20 million of that total authorization would remain effective in 2020. Using information provided by FEMA, CBO estimates that, implementing S. 2750 would cost $412 million over the 2020-2025 period and $49 million after 2025, assuming appropriation of the authorized amounts."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2020-01-29
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Privacy Impact Assessment for the Trusted Worker Program System (TWP)
From the Abstract: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is responsible for vetting and monitoring the eligibility of workers applying for access to sensitive CBP-controlled areas or positions. CBP uses the Trusted Worker Program System (TWP), which is a subsystem of the e-Business cloud and is hosted on the CBP Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud East (CACE), to facilitate enrollment and vetting of applicants for eBadge, Bonded Worker, and Broker's License. In 2019, CBP migrated the data and vetting of trusted workers from the Global Enrollment System (GES) Trusted Worker (TW) to TWP. CBP has developed this overarching Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to: (1) document the creation of a new privacy sensitive system, TWP, (2) and provide notice of a web-service interface data exchange mechanism between CBP and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Transportation Vetting System (TVS) for the eBadge program."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
2020-01-24
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Department of Homeland Security: Employee Morale Survey Scores Highlight Progress and Continued Challenges, Statement of Chris Currie Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and Accountability, Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives
From the GAO [Government Accountability Office] Highlights: "DHS is the third-largest cabinet-level department in the federal government, employing more than 240,000 staff in a broad range of jobs, including countering terrorism and homeland security threats, providing aviation and border security, emergency response, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure protection. Since it began operations in 2003, DHS has faced challenges with low employee morale and engagement. [...] This statement addresses our past and ongoing work monitoring human capital management and employee morale at DHS and select work on employee engagement across the government. This statement is based on products GAO issued from September 2012 through May 2019 as well as GAO's ongoing efforts to monitor employee morale at DHS as part of GAO's highrisk work. For these products, GAO analyzed DHS strategies and other documents related to DHS's efforts to address its high-risk areas, interviewed DHS officials, conducted analyses of FEVS [Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey] data, and interviewed officials from other federal agencies that achieved high employee engagement scores, among other things."
United States. Government Accountability Office
Currie, Chris
2020-01-14
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Department of Homeland Security: Border Security Status Report: First Quarter, Fiscal Year 2019 (Fiscal Year 2019 Report to Congress)
From the Legislative Language: "This report has been prepared pursuant to the direction in Senate Report 115-283 accompanying the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act (P.L. 116-6). Senate Report 115-283 includes the following provision: The Committee continues its requirement that the Department submit quarterly Border Security Status reports and data on the deportation of the parents of U.S.- born children semiannually, as in prior years."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Directorate for Management
2020-01-08
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Comparing DHS Component Funding, FY2020: In Brief [Updated January 3, 2020]
From the Document: "The homeland security appropriations bill includes all annual appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), providing resources to every departmental component. This report reviews the budget authority provided to DHS for FY2019 and requested by the Trump Administration for FY2020, as well as the funding levels proposed by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in their reported legislation for FY2020 and ultimately enacted in P.L. [Public Law] 116-93, Division D. In the process, it also includes information on DHS funding from two enacted FY2019 supplemental appropriations measures: P.L. 116-20, a disaster relief supplemental; and P.L. 116-26, a supplemental appropriations bill funding humanitarian and security operations at the U.S.-Mexico border. The report provides a look at the resources available to DHS components that are described in appropriations committee reports, and examines 'net discretionary annual appropriations' for DHS--a perspective on the net impact of legislation funding DHS on congressionally tracked budget totals."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Painter, William L.
2020-01-03
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security: FY 2020 Summary of Performance and Financial Information
From the Document: "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a fundamental duty--to safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values with honor and integrity. During Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, DHS delivered results across all mission areas, ensuring lawful trade and travel, enhancing border security, combatting transnational criminal organizations, and vetting all domestic passengers and checked baggage. Our results demonstrate the Department's efforts to secure key leaders and critical infrastructure, to continue enhancing our immigration system, and to constantly develop our capabilities for response and recovery in the face of disasters and pandemics."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
2020?
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Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking, the Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labor, and Child Sexual Exploitation
From the Executive Summary: "The prevalence of human trafficking, forced labor, and child sexual exploitation throughout the world is an urgent humanitarian issue with direct and far-reaching consequences on the United States. Within the United States, human trafficking and child sexual exploitation are grossly prevalent and affect diverse communities. These crimes threaten our physical and virtual borders, our immigration and customs systems, our prosperity, our national security, and are a direct attack on Americans' personal safety and our country's public safety. Accordingly, the United States has declared it a national priority to end human trafficking, the importation of goods produced with forced labor, and child sexual exploitation. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is on the frontlines of this fight, protecting the country and collaborating with our partners to stop these crimes. To leverage all of our authorities in this fight, DHS developed a first-of-its-kind 'Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking, the Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labor, and Child Sexual Exploitation.' It represents our vision to end this urgent humanitarian issue, articulates the Department's long-term approach for combating these crimes, and serves as a framework to prioritize our resources and monitor progress."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
2020-01
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Northern Northern Border: Homeland Security Priorities in the Arctic, Part I, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, First Session, September 19, 2019
This is the September 19, 2019 hearing titled "Northern Northern Border: Homeland Security Priorities in the Arctic, Part I," held before the House Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security of the Committee on Homeland Security. From the opening statement of J. Luis Correa: "Today's hearing will discuss a changing Arctic and U.S. strategic interests in that region, specifically, priorities for securing the homeland. A change in climate has already led to diminishing sea ice, opening up parts of the Arctic for increased economic and maritime activity. Sadly, our Government is ill-prepared for this new reality. I am concerned that the aggressive actions of other nations, mainly Russia and China, threaten to undermine the international order. Russia has expended its military installations and footprint in the Arctic, investing heavily in a large icebreaker fleet of more than 50 icebreakers, reviving Cold War bases and deepwater ports and, of course, solidifying infrastructure in the region as well." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Michael Sfraga, Abbie Tingstad, Victoria Hermann, and Luke Coffey.
United States. Government Publishing Office
2020
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Trade Facilitation Best Practices Implemented in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Overview: "Maintaining trade flows as much as possible during the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic will be crucial in providing access to essential food and health supplies and in limiting the negative impacts on jobs and poverty. The implementation of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) provides governments with a sound framework for improving trade facilitation and border management. During this crisis implementing measures contained in the TFA can contribute to ensure that trade in critical supplies proceeds smoothly and safely thereby contributing to food security and the health of citizens. This document builds on the World Bank Group's Trade and COVID Guidance Note on Managing Risk and Facilitating Trade in the COVID-19 Pandemic which provides recommendations to governments in maintaining the supply chain that are facilitating the trade of critically needed commodities during the COVID-19 pandemic and protecting workers at ports, terminals and points of entry."
World Bank Group
Yang, Aileen; Sela, Shane; Zawacki, Marisa
2020
