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Border Security

The Border Crisis and National Security: What Needs To Be Done?

The Border Crisis and National Security: What Needs To Be Done?

SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE BRIEFING — It's difficult to clearly understand the real nature of the national security threat that exists at the U.S. southern [...] More

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Why Congress Will Not Build That Wall

The President’s recent tweet storm threatening to close the U.S.’s land border with Mexico and order military action to counter a “dangerous” caravan [...] More
What Does ‘Right’ Look Like at the U.S. Border?

What Does ‘Right’ Look Like at the U.S. Border?

Six years ago this month, almost to the day, Cipher Brief CEO & Publisher Suzanne Kelly accompanied then- Border Chief Michael J. Fisher to the U.S. [...] More

What a Wall Won't Fix on the U.S.-Mexico Border

The assumption that a longer, higher wall along the U.S. border with Mexico will improve the nation’s security is wrong. Extending the nearly 700 [...] More

We Should Be Nice with Nice Guys and Tough with Tough Guys

The United States is confronting a wide array of national security challenges ranging from North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and Russia’s subversive [...] More

New Border Controls Don’t Add Up To “Extreme Vetting”

The State Department circulated a cable last week, outlining new guidelines concerning passport, security measures, and biographical information for [...] More
Do the Trump Team’s New Rules for Vetting Visitors Target Muslims?

Do the Trump Team’s New Rules for Vetting Visitors Target Muslims?

The revised ban on travel and immigration from six Muslim-majority countries ordered by President Donald Trump on March 6 now sits before the Supreme [...] More

Traveler Rules Could Trigger Backlash from Friendly Arab States

The U.S. State Department recently released a new set of guidelines for foreign nationals seeking to travel to the U.S., requiring their countries of [...] More

Why Mexican Security is Crumbling – and How That Matters Here

Mexico was ranked the most-worsened country this year on the Fund for Peace's Fragile States Index (FSI), tying with Ethiopia for the bottom spot. [...] More

U.S., Mexican Militaries Must Keep Working Together, Sharing Intel

Mexico’s stability affects the U.S., and U.S. policy has an effect on its southern neighbor’s stability. The recent Fund for Peace Fragile States [...] More
Mexico’s Violence Spikes, Fueled by Drug Trafficking, Kidnapping, Corruption

Mexico’s Violence Spikes, Fueled by Drug Trafficking, Kidnapping, Corruption

Homicides in Mexico surged by 255 percent from 2015 to 2016, and extortion cases increased by 30 percent, according to a recent American Enterprise [...] More

Trump Supplemental Budget to Fight ISIS, Build the Wall

The Trump administration is building up American ground forces available in Kuwait to fight against Islamic terrorists in Iraq, Syria, and [...] More

Setback in Building The Wall

President Donald Trump’s magnificent wall has had its first setback.The original schedule for contractors to produce bids to build initial sections [...] More