Homeland Security Planning and Policy: Southwest Border Case Study

This report presents a case study analysis of the Southwest Border (SWB), focusing on homeland security planning, policy development, and the challenges posed by drug trafficking and related criminal activities. The study examines the organizational structure of the SWB, including the Social Welfare Bureau and its various departments, along with the issues arising from uncoordinated law enforcement and homeland security activities. It identifies key agencies involved in the SWB region, such as CISA and ONDCP, and highlights the responsibilities of Homeland Security in the area. The report also explores existing organizational structures, suggesting improvements like increased intelligence personnel and the implementation of iterative decision-making processes. References to relevant literature, including works by McDonald, Gates, and Salazar, support the analysis of the NSWBCN strategy and its components, such as interdiction efforts and community sensitization, while also addressing the secondary threat of WMDs and the complexities of drug trafficking organizations.

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Organisational structure
The administrative framework of the Southwestern Border comprises of a branch of
Social Welfare Bureau which runs a number of departments such as : the administrative
convention and the directors. Members of administrative convention comprise of : the directors ,
the deputy directors ,department managements and finance, head of R&D and lastly financial
service bureau representatives that are further made up of the following departments.
Social cohesion division
Under this division, there are other sub-divisions such as the office of children and youth
services, the office of the aged issues , the office of rehabilitation and lastly the licensing offices.
The Office of Drug treatment and prevention of drug dependence.
Under this office , there are the following division : rehabilitation and social treatments
for drug dependency, The Division of Family and public services , the office of R&D as well as
the department of finance and administration (Salazar, & Donnelly, 2009).
Frustration of uncoordinated law enforcement and homeland security activities at the SWB
The drastic increase in incoordination of law enforcement has resulted to increased levels
of crime such as illegal immigration , Terrorism , drug trafficking among others . As a result of
such issues , resources are not being used in a proper manner and there is increased cases of
money laundering across the region around the region (Gates, 2012).

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Local, state, tribal, and federal organizations that have equities in the SWB region.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) id a federal agency
tasked with communication interoperability. The Office of National Drug Control Policy
(ONDCP) is also a federal and state agency tasked with executive level anti-drug efforts and
ensuring . Border Enforcement Security Taskforces (BEST) is a local SWB agency created back
in 2006 as a framework that would incorporate federal , state , local and tribal agencies to
properly investigate cross border criminal activities.
Responsibilities
Some of the responsibilities conducted by the Homeland security at SWB consist of:
making sure that the security agencies are in place twofold where the population of US
immigration personnel and the enforcement task forces incorporate the two federal states .
Existing organizational structures that are either complimentary and supportive, or
redundant and inefficient.
The number of intelligence personnel requires to be increased three times at the boundary
in order to offer a much better competence to develop better intelligence frameworks.
Furthermore , the workers are already in place with the current cost of approximately $3.5
million. There are also considerations to incorporate iterative decisions making procedures, as a
proper guide for nurturing and making up of operations on the SWB border. Such activities
would be flexible in response to the drastic and efficient means of dealing with important
information (McDonald, 2012) .

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References
McDonald, M. F. (2012). Joint Interagency Task Force-Illicit Trafficking: Enhancing the
Interagency Organizational Framework for Operations along the Southwest Border.
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Gates, K. (2012). The globalization of homeland security. Routledge handbook of surveillance
studies, 292.
Salazar, M., & Donnelly, R. (2009). US southwest border security initiatives. Washington, DC:
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Retrieved June, 6, 2010.