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Summary: Challenges To Secure The Border

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There are many challenges faced by US Customs and Border Protection agents attempting to secure the border of the United States. The bordering countries of the U.S. raise many different issues especially when we are talking about terrorism, illegal smuggling, human trafficking, free trade. Understanding the challenges of the border and customs agent we must first understand: The Functional Equivalent of the border, The Fourth Amendment, Search and Seizure, Open market closed border, Challenges maintaining secure borders, impact of terrorism on U.S. and Global markets since 9/11.
The border that separate countries are imaginary political lines that stretch over land, into the air and twelve nautical miles in the water. These borders also include …show more content…

There have been initiatives created in order to do just that but have been able to succeed due to many factors. Corruption is one factors that no matter how high the fences are money will corrupt the system. The US needs to develop systems in order to close off the border to illegal activity, illegal immigration, migrant workers and smuggling operations. “This means tightening controls over prohibited cross-border economic flows even while trying to create borderless free trade.” (Andreas, 1996) Continuously updating policy and procedures allows border security to catch attempted smugglers or smugglers to become smarter and change their tactics to beat these advances in policies and …show more content…

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