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1 results foundAuthor: Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Title: Department of Homeland Security Northern Border Strategy Summary: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The international border between the United States and Canada separates two friendly nations with a long history of social, cultural, and economic ties. United States and Canadian economic and security interests rest on the facilitation of safe, secure, and efficient flow of cross-border traffic and securing the border against threats. Security and facilitation of trade and travel are not competing goals, but rather are mutually reinforcing. To preserve and uphold U.S. economic security and prosperity, and secure our border, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must facilitate lawful trade and travel, reduce security risks and vulnerabilities, and promote cross-border resiliency and collaborative partnerships. In 2017, DHS conducted an assessment of Northern Border security and concluded that while the Northern Border remains an area of limited threat in comparison to the U.S. Southern Border, safeguarding and securing the Northern Border presents unique challenges. The most common threat to U.S. public safety along the Northern Border continues to be the bi-directional flow of illicit drugs. Transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are also active along the border and they continually adapt their drug production, smuggling methods, and routes to avoid detection by U.S. and Canadian law enforcement. Potential terror threats are primarily from homegrown violent extremists in Canada who are not included in the U.S. Government's consolidated terrorist watch list and could therefore enter the United States legally at Northern Border ports of entry (POEs) without suspicion. This Strategy establishes a clear vision and discrete actions that will collectively improve DHS’s efforts to safeguard the Northern Border against terrorist and criminal threats, facilitate the flow of lawful cross-border trade and travel, and strengthen crossborder community resilience. It aligns with the requirements of the Northern Border Security Review Act. The Strategy and its companion Implementation Plan will improve the Department’s ability to identify capability gaps and evaluate measures to address them, allowing DHS to improve management oversight and optimize taxpayer resources. The Strategy articulates three main goals with key objectives identified under each goal. GOAL 1: Enhance Border Security Operations - Objective 1 - Exchange timely and actionable information and intelligence on cross-border terrorism and illicit activities with federal, state, local, tribal, and international partners. - Objective 2 - Improve coordination, integration, and analysis across domestic and international domain surveillance and information-sharing systems. - Objective 3 - Use intelligence, risk assessments, and capability gap assessments to inform placement of surveillance and detection assets and resources. - Objective 4 - Promote and improve integrated operations to identify, interdict, investigate, and disrupt terrorist and other illicit cross-border activities. - Objective 5 - Use public and private-sector outreach to deter adversaries from exploiting the Northern Border to harm the United States. GOAL 2: Facilitate and Safeguard Lawful Trade and Travel - Objective 1 - Enhance cross-border collaboration, capability improvements, and continued partner engagement to safeguard and secure transportation networks. - Objective 2 - Promote the utilization of Trusted Traveler and prescreening programs and continue to develop and enhance inspection and screening capabilities, processes, and technologies to enable rapid processing of travelers. - Objective 3 - Continuously improve cargo and trade facilitation and enforcement policies, processes, and technologies to enable a fair and competitive trade environment. - Objective 4 – Enhance Northern Border capacity and efficiencies through infrastructure, resource, personnel, and capability improvements to meet mission requirements. GOAL 3: Promote Cross-border Resilience - Objective 1 - Enhance cross-border, multi-sectoral emergency communication to facilitate effective response and recovery operations. - Objective 2 - Support and enhance cross-border response and recovery capabilities with and between federal, state, local, tribal, and Canadian partners through mutual aid agreements, cooperative planning, and multi-sectoral exercises. - Objective 3 - Protect and enhance the security and resilience of critical infrastructure through improved threat and risk awareness, vulnerability reduction, and hazard mitigation. Details: Department of Homeland Security, 2018. 24p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 14, 2019 at: https://www.dhs.gov/publication/northern-border-strategy Year: 2018 Country: United States URL: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/18_0612_PLCY_DHS-Northern-Border-Strategy.pdf Shelf Number: 154198 Keywords: Assessment Border Security Operations Border Strategy Canada Cross-Border Collaboration Cross-Border Traffic Department of Homeland Security Facilitate Trade Illicit Drug Trade Ports of Entry Security Risks Smuggling Transnational Criminal Organizations |