To tackle challenges, the government should restructure homeland security around a purpose emphasizing safety and services in addition to its traditional security functions.
FREMONT, CA: While the mission and priorities remain crucial in deterring attacks from outside the homeland, improving them is essential to ensure that they meet current needs. Natural catastrophes, pandemics, and cyberattacks are just a few of today's most severe dangers to safety and prosperity that begin at home or are borderless by nature. We need homeland security that emphasizes the rule of law and protects all citizens and immigrants who come to live, study, work, and seek safety in an era of increased cross-border mobility of people and things.
Welcoming and helping the immigrants
Homeland security should stress its unique role in welcoming those who immigrate to, visit, or seek shelter in a particular nation by providing efficient and respectful service to aspiring citizens and other immigrants. The department should invest in new, flexible headquarters and regional capabilities that can meet a wide range of emergencies and situations and increase its existing disaster relief and emergency management capacity.
Connection and facilitation
Homeland security should prioritize service and partnerships and invest in initiatives to connect state, local, tribal, and territory officials with federal resources and officials. It should continue to support legal international trade and travel and safeguard the nation's safety. It helps transportation services and maintains the country's waterways and marine resources.
Protecting and securing security
Security should be protected so that it should coordinate cybersecurity and critical infrastructure activities to bridge the gap between public and private infrastructure. It should guarantee that government protection measures may effectively extend to all sectors across the country. It should stick to its primary mission of controlling our air, land, and maritime borders in a secure, efficient, and humane manner.
Preventing attacks and enforcing the law
It should focus on the growing prevalence of domestic difficulties and borderless threats while preserving its critical role in preventing attacks on the particular nation at home and abroad. It should re-calibrate its enforcement actions in light of the department's broader safety and service goals and relocate law enforcement duties that aren't aligned with this purpose to other parts of the federal government that are better equipped to handle them.
