Arms Transfers
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) integrity-related training courses are systematic and integrated--that is, they are offered in succession and required at each stage of an employee's career, as well as standardized and regularized
Because the trends in the overall violent crime rate may not be indicative of trends in drug trafficking-related violent crimes, CRS is unable to develop fact-based conclusions about trends in drug trafficking-related violence spilling over from Mexico into the United States.
An examination of U.S. funds designated for counter-drug trafficking and other programs.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has reported progress in stemming illegal cross-border activity, but it could strengthen the assessment of its efforts
This request for additional foreign assistance includes aid to Mexico under the "Merida Initiative."
This request for additional foreign assistance includes aid to Haiti following the January 2010 earthquake.
Although the committee generally supports the efforts of SOUTHCOM to transform itself to meet the twenty-first-century challenges in the Western Hemisphere more effectively, the committee does have a series of concerns about the implications of these changes
Details from the International Affairs Budget Request as produced by the Bureau of Resource Management within the State Department.
A federal advisory committee's "effort to review current U.S. approaches to security capacity building, its goals, and its effectiveness." Does not represent official U.S. government positions or policies.
As a condition of spending funds for its Merida Initiative package of military and economic aid, the State Department had to submit a plan for how these funds would be spent.