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Border Security: Key Agencies and Their Missions

Description: This report serves as a primer on the key federal agencies charged with border security by briefly describing each agency's role in securing our nation's borders. The four main agencies are the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the United States Coast Guard, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Date: August 4, 2005
Creator: Nuñez-Neto, Blas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defining Homeland Security: Analysis and Congressional Considerations

Description: This report discusses the evolution of national and DHS-specific homeland security strategic documents and their homeland security definitions and missions, and analyzes the policy question of how varied homeland security definitions and misions may effect the development of national homeland security strategy.
Date: January 8, 2013
Creator: Reese, Shawn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Homeland Security: Coast Guard Operations — Background and Issues for Congress

Description: This report discusses the Coast Guard as the lead federal agency for maritime homeland security. For FY2007, the Coast Guard is requesting a total of about $4.5 billion for missions defined in The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (P.L., 107-296) as the Coast Guard's homeland security missions. The Coast Guard's homeland security operations pose several potential issues for Congress.
Date: October 25, 2006
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Homeland Security and House Committees: Analysis of 109th Congress Jurisdiction Changes and Their Impact on the Referral of Legislation

Description: This report analyzes 828 bills and joint resolutions that were introduced in the 109th Congress through May 26, 2005, and that concerned subject matter included in the rules changes and the Legislative History.
Date: August 30, 2005
Creator: Koempel, Michael L. & Schneider, Judy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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