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How Do We Get Past the Coming Border Crisis?

Thomas Warrick was DHS Deputy Assistant for Counterterrorism Policy from August 2008 to June 2019 and is now Director of the Future of DHS Project [...] More

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Mexico's Internal War: 5 Questions for Michael Vigil

Mike Vigil is the former Chief of International Operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration. He is one of the most highly decorated agents [...] More

Making the Border a National Intelligence Priority

The Cipher Brief is focusing this week on the real national security situation that is building along the southern border. The President recently [...] More

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Mexico's Role in Border Security

The Cipher Brief is taking a look this week at the national security situation along the southern border. On Sunday, Congressman Will Hurd told NBC, [...] More

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The Real National Security Challenges at the Border

The Cipher Brief is taking a look this week at the national security situation along the southern border.On NBC, the only Congressional Republican [...] More

What (or Who) is Driving the U.S. Border Crisis?

What (or Who) is Driving the U.S. Border Crisis?

The number of monthly apprehensions based on illegal border crossings hovers north of 90,000 people. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection [...] More

Who Will Man the Wall?

OPINION — Set aside for a moment how you feel about building the wall. There is a more immediate issue in controlling the flow of illegal traffic and [...] More

President Trump's Real Emergency

OPINION — Prior to President Trump, only two Presidents have initiated use of the special emergency authority [U.S. Code Title 10, Section 2808] to [...] More

Smarter Border Security

The Government remains shut down after President Donald Trump offered a plan over the weekend to provide temporary protection to some groups of [...] More

Secretaries Series: Jeh Johnson on DHS' Toughest Tasks

Election security, the migration of people toward the U.S.’ southern border and the public-private critical intersection of cyber security are just a [...] More

The True Border Mission

OPINION — President Trump’s pre-election-day deployment of U.S. Army units on the southwest border may turn out to be more of a dangerous, long-term [...] More

India and China’s Game of Chicken at the “Chicken’s Neck”

The recent tensions between India and China have entered their sixth week. What began as a dispute over the location of a Chinese road building [...] More

Signs of a Thaw in India, China Border Dispute

After six weeks, tensions remain high in the Dolam Plateau (within the Doklam area), a contested border area nestled between India, China, and [...] More