Homeland Security Goes Abroad. Not Everyone Is Grateful.

[Borealis]

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[QUOTE]ABOARD A P-3 ORION, over the Pacific Ocean — The Department of Homeland Security is increasingly going global.

An estimated 2,000 Homeland Security employees — from Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents to Transportation Security Administration officials — now are deployed to more than 70 countries around the world.

Hundreds more are either at sea for weeks at a time aboard Coast Guard ships, or patrolling the skies in surveillance planes above the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

The expansion has created tensions with some European countries who say that the United States is trying to export its immigration laws to their territory. But other allies agree with the United States’ argument that its longer reach strengthens international security while preventing a terrorist attack, drug shipment, or human smuggling ring from reaching American soil.

“Many threats to the homeland begin overseas, and that’s where we need to be,” said James Nealon, the department’s assistant secretary for international engagement.[/QUOTE]

This article was by a mr Ron Nixon, very presidential name :v:

But anyway, isn't this something the countries themselves or interpol or something should do?

[snookypookums]

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This article was by a mr Ron Nixon, very presidential name :v:

But anyway, isn't this something the countries themselves or interpol or something should do?[/QUOTE]

I've been through one of these US Pre-clearance points while traveling to the US via Abu Dhabi (Etihad flight). It just moves the step of immigration clearance to the stopover if anything. When you deplane Stateside it's like you're landing on a local (inter-US) flight, if anything, not an international flight so it does [I]sorta[/I] speed up the process (which is more or less the same as it would be in the US).

I think it's a bit of an overreach to have the government warrant that level of security where you need to clear them before they even board the flight than take that decision when they've reached your soil, but this seems, on the surface, to be the government's way of creating jobs. How effective is remains to be seen, considering the US presence already rubs local governments (in countries that aren't reliant on the US overtly) the wrong way.

[Sableye]

Homeland Security is just a nasty nebulous organization that's been allowed to grow out because of the patriot act and other post 9-11 security reforms. Here's a list of the agencies they run according to wikipedia
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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Federal Emergency Management Agency
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Transportation Security Administration
United States Coast Guard
National Protection and Programs Directorate
United States Secret Service
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
Citizenship & Immigration Services Ombudsmen
Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
Management Directorate
Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
Office of General Counsel
Office of Health Affairs
Office of Intelligence & Analysis
Office of Legislative Affairs
Office of Operations Coordination
Office of Partnership & Engagement
Office of Policy
Office of Public Affairs
Office of the Inspector General
Privacy Office
Science & Technology Directorate

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