scholarly journals Valuing Human Infrastructure: Protecting and Investing in Essential Workers during the COVID-19 Era

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Joseph W. Kane ◽  
Adie Tomer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Brookings Institution ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Definition Of

The United States requires an enormous class of workers to keep essential services online. The Department of Homeland Security uses a sweeping definition of such essential industries from grocery stores to hospitals to warehouses, which collectively employed 90 million workers prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. A portion of these essential workers—or “frontline” workers—must physically show up to their jobs and have been especially vulnerable to additional health and economic risks, including many employed in infrastructure-related activities. This analysis—based on Brookings Institution posts written in March and June 2020—defines the country’s essential workforce and explores their economic and demographic characteristics in greater depth, revealing a need for continued protections and investments as part of the COVID-19 recovery.

Refuge in the National Security State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Cristina García
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
The World ◽  
National Security State

In response to the terrorist attacks of 1993 and 2001, the Clinton and Bush administrations restructured the immigration bureaucracy, placed it within the new Department of Homeland Security, and tried to convey to Americans a greater sense of safety. Refugees, especially those from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, suffered the consequences of the new national security state policies, and found it increasingly difficult to find refuge in the United States. In the post-9/11 era, refugee advocates became even more important to the admission of refugees, reminding Americans of their humanitarian obligations, especially to those refugees who came from areas of the world where US foreign policy had played a role in displacing populations.

Protection of the Homeland and the Establishment of the United States Department of Homeland Security

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-142
Author(s):  
David Hughes McElreath ◽  
Daniel Adrian Doss ◽  
Barbara Russo ◽  
Greg Etter ◽  
Jeffrey Van Slyke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
States Department

scholarly journals Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-405
Author(s):  
Nathan K. Hensley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Legal Guardian ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Customs And Border Protection ◽  
Physical Custody

“We saw no issues,” reports the Department of Homeland Security in a self-study of its practices for detaining children at the US–Mexico border, “except one unsanitary bathroom.” The system is working as it should; all is well. “CBP [Customs and Border Protection] facilities we visited,” the report summarizes, “appeared to be operating in compliance with the 2015 National Standards on Transport, Escort, Detention, and Search.” A footnote on page 2 of the September 2018 document defines the prisoners at these facilities, the “unaccompanied alien children,” as “aliens under the age of eighteen with no lawful immigration status in the United States and without a parent or legal guardian in the United States ‘available’ to care and [provide] physical custody for them.” Available is in scare quotes. This tic of punctuation discloses to us that the parents of these children have been arrested and removed. They are not available, and cannot take physical custody of their children, because they themselves are in physical custody. In a further typographical error, the word “provide” has been omitted: the children are without a parent or legal guardian in the United States “available” to care and physical custody for them. The dropped word turns “physical custody” into a verb and sets this new action, to physical custody, in tense relation to “care.”

scholarly journals Global and Local Challenges to Refugee Protection

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Silas W. Allard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
Continuous Presence ◽  
Global And Local

On October 12, 2017, the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, took a short trip from Pennsylvania Avenue across the Potomac to Falls Church, Virginia. The Attorney General went to Falls Church to address personnel of the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), the agency that administers the United States’ immigration courts. The Attorney General's chosen topic for the day was “the fraud and abuse in our asylum system.” “Over the years,” the Attorney General argued, “Congress has rationally passed legislation designed to create an efficient and fair procedure to properly admit persons andexpedite the removalof aliens who enter the United States illegally.” The Attorney General is referring here to the “expedited removal” procedures that Congress created in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Expedited removal gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to deport, without a hearing, any person who was not admitted to the United States and who cannot prove continuous presence for the prior two years. The Department of Homeland Security currently exercises a narrower expedited removal authority pursuant to the Department's prosecutorial discretion. Only individuals apprehended within two weeks of entry and within 100 miles of a land border are subject to expedited removal, per Department regulations.

R&D in the United States department of homeland security

Prometheus ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-353
Author(s):  
Kei Koizumi ◽  
Joanne Carney ◽  
David Cooper ◽  
Al Teich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
States Department

Capabilities-based planning: A framework for local planning success?

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Reibestein, BA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
States Department ◽  
Tribal Governments ◽  
National Preparedness

In September 2007, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the National Preparedness Guidelines which advocate a capabilitiesbased planning (CBP) approach to preparedness for state, local, and tribal governments. This article provides an overview of capabilities-based planning and a more specific focus on the aims, objectives, and components of the DHS CBP model. The article also summarizes what scholars have previously suggested are fundamental elements for successful emergency and disaster planning focusing specifically on Quarantelli’s 10 research-based principles. The article evaluates the effectiveness of the DHS CBP model in helping local governments incorporate these fundamental elements into their planning efforts and concludes with an overall assessment of the DHS CBP model as a framework for local planning success.

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