Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings
Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings

Author: Sheldon X. Zhang

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2007-07-30

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0313065411

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Coming to America to make a better life has long been a dream of many from around the world, even if it means being smuggled into the country to gain entry. This book examines how human smuggling and trafficking activities to the United States are carried out and explores the legal and policy challenges of dealing with these problems. Zhang covers the scope and patterns of global human trafficking and smuggling activities; the strategies and methods employed by various groups to bring individuals into the United States; major smuggling routes and venues; the involvement of organized criminal organizations in transnational human smuggling activities; and the challenges confronting the U.S. government in combating these activities.

Department of State
Department of State

Author: Gregory D. Kutz

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13: 1437914578

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A genuine U.S. passport permits its owner to travel freely in and out of the U.S., prove U.S. citizenship, obtain further identification documents, and set up bank accounts, among other things. The auditor was asked to proactively test the effectiveness of State's passport issuance process to determine whether the process is vulnerable to fraud. The investigation shows that terrorists or criminals could steal an American citizen's identity, use basic counterfeiting skills to create fraudulent documentation for that identity, and obtain a genuine U.S. passport from the Dept. of State. The auditor conducted 4 tests simulating this approach and was successful in obtaining a genuine U.S. passport in each case.

Open Target
Open Target

Author: Clark Kent Ervin

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1250092507

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Based on his first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin shows the real threats we face--from nuclear attack to homegrown terrorism. Pushed out by the White House for refusing to sugarcoat its failures, Ervin candidly discusses the circumstances of his departure. He takes the reader inside the decision-making councils of this newest department of the U.S. government, and shows how his team's prescriptions for urgent change were ignored--leaving the US vulnerable to another terrorist attack.