homeland security
National/Homeland Security Background Paper Homeland Security with recent events dealing with 9/11 has only proven that our security in the world is not our biggest problem. Our borders within America are weak. Today technology has reached so many opportunities that if it were fall into the hands of confused individuals we our going to continue see just how weak of a country are within. Yet the more I read about this topic I see how the country has evolved in its ability to protect its. After the War of 1812 our country made it its duties to protect our borders with a strong military present in out main land. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor we understood the importance of having strong intelligence or ability to spread our capabilities and early warning systems. Even the Cold War played a role in our advancing ability to protecting our nation. We experience an arms race that reached the point that we had the capabilities to end civilization. And with the most recent of these events is 9/11. Today I think that more people now understood that technology created vast opportunities both good and bad. Our capabilities as man have reached such an extreme th
Chemical and Biological Threat: -DHS has established the BioWatch program. - Centennial Park bombing in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics, which killed 1 and injured more than 100. at basically power by one is more dangerous then ever. Yet 9/11 has only proven that we need to restrict who we let in and protect our borders from invaders of every kind. We have about 95,000 miles of shoreline and navigable waterways as well as 3. At first homeland security was used to protect trade from British ships. Many of the tools the Act provides to law enforcement to fight terrorism have been used for decades to fight organized crime and drug dealers, -Allows law enforcement to use surveillance against more crimes of terror. More than 3,000 people are dead or missing from the attacks, which Osama bin Laden's organization is believed to be responsible for. - Back to the First World War when the Army Air Forces and the Navy defended our homeland you can see many improvements in our first alert systems and our overall ability to with stand an attack. Over 500 million people enter our boarders and there is an estimated 1. - The bombing of the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, in which 168 were killed and 519 were injured. Immigration Control:- Each year the United States admits 500 million people.
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