Border Patrol How Many Agents Essay

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Among the strengths of this strategic plan are its ability to collect data in a broad manner of ways, from interviewing individuals, using biometrics such as fingerprints and iris scans, and using various electronic means. By combining these different techniques and by having such a broad purview, the agency is capable of being able to have the necessarily broad view of the ways in which people and goods enter and leave the country.

Among its key faults is that it has consistently targeted individuals who are guilty of nothing at all, perhaps sharing the same name of someone who is wanted, or merely being Muslim or Arabic. This latter problem can deprive individuals of the civil rights that any individual who is in the United States (whether or not that individual is a citizen of the U.S.) is guaranteed.


Linked to this is the fact that people who are arrested under the aegis of homeland security are often denied the right of habeas corpus, meaning that they can be held in prison for long periods of time. Protecting the borders is clearly important, but it should come at the cost of violating the Constitution. Finally, the agency fails to prevent many immigrants from crossing the U.S. southern border into the United States.

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