I love that border map in your link. I have to cross a border checkpoint quite often, only about 75 miles north from the Mexico border. I get the priviledge of waiting in traffic to have a border patrol agent peer into my car to decide what I am. And then wave me on through into a free-er part of the USA.
Doesn’t everybody technically have different jurisdictions? I think the CIA is international (and not in the US), the FBI is only in the US, and DHS is to make sure that “never the twain shall meet”?
Which brings up the question: what does the DHS do?
They “protect us” at our “borders”.
And let’s not forget the TSA, who enhances our airport’s security.
I love that border map in your link. I have to cross a border checkpoint quite often, only about 75 miles north from the Mexico border. I get the priviledge of waiting in traffic to have a border patrol agent peer into my car to decide what I am. And then wave me on through into a free-er part of the USA.
From DHS site (mission statement):
Everybody does pretty much the same thing. Or doesn’t do anything, depending on how you look at it.
Right, which is the point.
Doesn’t everybody technically have different jurisdictions? I think the CIA is international (and not in the US), the FBI is only in the US, and DHS is to make sure that “never the twain shall meet”?
I think they made DHS because the other departments didn’t communicate well before 9-11. I thought DHS was supposed to have over-arching jurisdiction.