Border Enforcement

Explore all research, analysis, data, and commentary on the enforcement of national borders.

All Content

Showing 441–450 of 492 results

Quiet Demise of the Virtual Fence

After more than $1 billion in funding, the United States’ virtual border fence program was cancelled in January 2011.

Officials from the Coast Guard and Border Patrol meet along a stretch of SBI fence in Arizona.

Securing Human Mobility in the Age of Risk: New Challenges for Travel, Migration, and Borders

Book release with Susan Ginsburg, MPI Nonresident Fellow and former Senior Counsel, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (9/11 Commission); Michael German, Policy Counsel on National Security, Immigration and Privacy, American Civil Liberties Union Washington Legislative Office; Luis Rubio, President, CIDAC (Center of Research for Development) and instructor at Mexico's intelligence agency school; and Donald M. Kerwin, Jr., MPI Vice President for Programs.

Transatlantic Information Sharing: At a Crossroads

Post‑9/11, the U.S. and EU governments had built ad hoc deals to share law enforcement data, yet divergent privacy laws prevented a unified, binding framework to govern these exchanges.