Homeland Security: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and efforts to protect the United States from international terrorism. * Provides readers with an objective, nonpartisan perspective on the complexity of enacting and implementing homeland security policy so that readers may better understand how difficult it is to combat terrorism * Illuminates how "lone-wolf" terrorists become radicalized and why they are so difficult for the government to protect against * Suggests more than a dozen proposed solutions to the vexing problems associated with protecting the United States from international terrorism * Details how immigration and homeland security are inherently related, and why Arab- and Muslim-American minorities suffer the brunt of the negative effects of the nation's border security crackdown * Explains why unauthorized immigration from Mexico and Central America has risen exponentially since 1970 and why policy to deal with illegal immigration poses such a conundrum

• | Author: Michael C. LeMay
• | Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Law
• | ISBN-10: 1440854092
• | ISBN-13: 9781440854095