United States Customs and Border Protection

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Question 1

There are several challenges faced by United States Customs and Border Protection agents trying to secure the borders. One of the challenges is a lack of officer compliance with the screening procedures. The officers are attributed to poor screening skills and knowledge thus, allowing illegal immigrants and unpermitted people into the United States. The officers are also not able to determine admissibility and citizenship of the travellers entering the country as required by CBP policy and the law of United States. The other challenge that the agents are facing is the lack of focus and training as well as the lack of supervisory presence along the borders. The above challenges have extensively affected securing of the borders. An International Airport, which receives flights from foreign nations, is denoted as the functional equivalent of a border. In addition, a regional center for express consignment services such as those offered by UPS is also a functional equivalent of a border. The border search exception is a policy of the US criminal law that permits seizures and searches at international borders as well as their functional equivalent without probable cause or a warrant. Seizure statistics helps border patrol agents and other organization determine the level of border security success. The numbers are analyzed to determine this success.

Question 2

A closed border is a border that does not allow movement of people between diverse authorities with no exceptions related with this movement. Such borders normally have walls and fences in which borders crossing are closed. In any case that the border is open they allow movement of people in exceptional situations. The most famous examples of closed borders are Demilitarized Zone between South and North Korea as well as the Berlin Wall. Open market, on the other hand, is a place or space whereby anyone willing to trade good may do so free of taxes and selling charges. The term has come to be regarded by many economic activists as the ultimate tool for tackling unemployment.

Question 3

The challenges of facilitating legal border crossings while securing the borders are immense, but for the sake of this paper, a few main ones will be addressed such as: The first and most significant challenge is economic challenge. While ensuring the borders are protected, the country or state protecting is borders is most likely to be deprived economic gains. On the process of ensuring, the borders are safe, sometimes due to poor training and skills among the agents the right people (investors) or business persons are deprived the right to cross borders to invest.

Question 4

The New York financial market was not able open on September 11. The immediate costs to the market were because of communication breakdown and other transaction processing systems located in the World Trade Center. More than $5 billion were lost that day due to the bombing.

Question 5

Positively, the agreements allowed the North America to trade openly or with less restriction to the south hence economic gains. The border was open to all potential investors to the North as long as they had no bad intentions. This improved the United States GDP by 3% between 2011 and 2013. Contrary, cottage industry in North America, as well as other SMEs, faced the problem of product or service duplication and competition.