Department of Homeland Security



MEMORANDUM

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Introduction

The department of homeland security was established right after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The department was created through the integration of 22 federal departments to strengthen and eliminate the risks related to homeland security. The DHS is responsible to achieve the key concepts that are connected with its mission that are security, resilience, customs and exchange. They attacks twin towers on 2011, Sept 11 had prompted DHS and the homeland security with the reasons of happenings. However, the debate modified in further investigations and the prevention of such attacks in the future. As a consequence, new departments were established within the DHS, some remain in public while others were performing duties with undercover.

The main objective of DHS became the prevention and preparation of future terrorist attacks to minimize the after effects of such threats and acts of terrorism. Besides the anti terrorists department, DHS were well concerned for the preparation and security of the people in regards of natural disasters. The hurricane disaster that came upon Gulf coast caused enormous disaster to the city of New Orleans. As a result more than 80 percent of the city was flooded with almost 1400 death and causalities (AllGov, 2013). The DHS unit of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) was given the responsibility to tackle such protection challenges with regards of public and economic safety. The agency is now capable to tackle much intense disasters and is more concerned for public safety.

Purpose

The purpose of this memo is to understand the birth and development of the department of homeland security to understand elements arguments that are related to this department. The memo will also discuss the responsibilities and risk evaluation of individual constitutional rights and freedoms.

Discussion

The department of homeland security was an initiative from the White House to ensure the collective response from different federal departments to combat the risk of terrorism for the American public. The National terrorism Advisory System is a new and proactive initiative to provide information to the general public of the United States from possible terrorist threats in the region.

In 2010, the department of Homeland Security spent an amount of $60 billion. It is also expected that the number will increase in the coming years which is a subject to criticism by many American thinkers and defense analysts (allgov, 2013). There are many aspects that can be argued and are included to avail the services of homeland security. The major example is the role of military in law enforcement and other similar policies that are designed and operated by DHS as human trafficking, money transfer, foreign policy.

There two major types of threats to the United States and it is the responsibility of DHS to overcome the issues related to domestic and international terrorism. Domestic terrorism can be defined as actions by a group within a nation against the government or specific goals oriented attacks. International terrorist threats are risk that involve foreign element to destruct and deploy terrorists to disturb and ...