Border Security and Illegal Immigration Enforcement de RICHARD M. TAYLOR

Border Security and Illegal Immigration Enforcement

RICHARD M. TAYLOR

Louis O. Walker

Border enforcement is a core element of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) effort to control illegal migration, with the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) within the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as the lead agency along most of the border. Border enforcement has been an ongoing subject of congressional interest since the 1970s, when illegal immigration to the United States first registered as a serious national problem; and border security has received additional attention in the decade following the terrorist attacks of 2001. This book reviews border enforcement efforts in the 25 years since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) initiated the modern era in migration control with a focus on appropriations and resources dedicated to border enforcement, indicators of enforcement outcomes, and possible secondary and unintended consequences of border enforcement.

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Preface; Border Security: Immigration Enforcement Between Ports of Entry; Testimony of Ruth Ellen Wasem, Specialist in Immigration Policy, Congressional Research Service before the Committee on Homeland Security. Hearing on "Does Administrative Amnesty Harm our Efforts to Gain & Maintain Operational Control of the Border?"; Statement of Kumar Kibble, Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement before the Committee on Homeland Security. Hearing on "Does Administrative Amnesty Harm our Efforts to Gain & Maintain Operational Control of the Border?"; Testimony of Michael J. Fisher, Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol before the Committee on Homeland Security. Hearing on "Does Administrative Amnesty Harm our Efforts to Gain & Maintain Operational Control of the Border?"; Southwest Border: Border Patrol Operations on Federal Lands (Statement of Anu K. Mittal, Director Natural Resources & Environment (GAO) at the hearing on "The Border: Are Environmental Laws & Regulations Impeding Security & Harming the Environment?"); Statement of Jay Jensen, Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources & Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture before the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform. Hearing on "The Border: Are Environmental Laws & Regulations Impeding Security & Harming the Environment?"; Index.