U.S. Border Security

This text provides an integrated view of post-9/11 security concerns over the United States''s shared border with Mexico and Canada in regards to terrorism unauthorized migration drug and arms smuggling and other illegal trade.The challenges facing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol are daunting. There are 19841 miles of American land and water boundaries to protect and 95000 miles of shoreline and defined air space subject to homeland security surveillance. Additionally the booming drug trade across the U.S.-Mexico border combined with the ever-increasing number of migrants wanting to reach our land of opportunity has resulted in a grim death toll: more than 5000 known migrant deaths have occurred along the U.S.-Mexico border during 19952008 and in 2009 an estimated 9635 Mexicans were killed in drug-related violence with 2573 people killed in Ciudad Juarez alone.U.S. Border Security focuses on the contrast between border security before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This text also examines the controversial topics of illegal immigration counterterrorism drug and weapons trafficking human smuggling the impact of border security on the movement of people and goods and the effect of the war on terrorism on civil and human rights.