The Border Challenge: An Insider's Guide to Stopping Drugs at America's Borders

by T. Michael Andrews

Overview

This book presents an insider's view of the federal government's dual mission to stop the flow of illegal drugs across our borders and to prevent streams of drug money from financing drug cartels, insurgents, and terrorists. Andrews focuses on current challenges facing federal drug enforcement agencies, how our strategies for enforcement have been redirected since 9/11, and why we require different strategies along our northern and southern borders and our ports of entry. This guide's aim is to provide an operational view of drug enforcement to policymakers, law enforcement officials, think tanks examining drug interdiction issues, and military officials who assist federal law enforcement efforts. The Border Challenge will also be of interest to students of international development and social change and the next generation of criminal justice and law enforcement officials.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761857082
Publisher:	UPA
Publication date:	12/16/2011
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

T. Michael Andrews, JD, LLM, MA, teaches in the Homeland Security Program at the University of Maryland University College. He has been recognized for his efforts in fighting drug trafficking and drug-related crimes as a prosecutor at the state and tribal levels in Arizona and as chief prosecutor, deputy county attorney, and Special Assistant United States Attorney for the district of Arizona. From 2004 to 2008, Andrews served as a senior policy advisor and assistant director for the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement, US Department of Homeland Security, where he assisted efforts to plan and coordinate federal anti-drug activities.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Thresholds of Concern Part One: The Federal Response to Fighting Drugs Chapter 2 Organizing and Financing Drug Enforcement Chapter 3 Political Leadership for Drug Policy Chapter 4 Turf Wars Empower Drug Traffickers Part Two: Securing Our Borders Chapter 5 Fighting Drugs and Violence Along Our Southwest Border Chapter 6 Intercepting the Business of Illegal Drugs Chapter 7 Sharing Drug Intelligence After 9/11 Part Three: Fortifying Near and Distant Borders Chapter 8 Fighting Drugs Along Our Northern Border Chapter 9 Fighting Drugs in Indian Country Chapter 10 The Drug-Terror Nexus Epilogue: The Border Challenge Acronyms and Abbreviations Chronology: Legislative Milestones and Popular Events in Controlling Illegal Drugs: 1911-2011 Notes Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

T. Michael Andrews’ Insider’s Guide is an insightful, investigative look at the danger lurking at America’s borders [and offers] fresh solutions on how to secure America in the heat of the drug war.
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, former Washington, D.C. prosecutor, investigative journalist, and author

This book addresses the culture of insecurity telegraphed down the federal chains of command from command central in the District of Columbia. More cross jurisdictional communication, more decentralization and more local involvement will bear much low hanging inexpensive fruit in our collective effort to stop the flow of drugs across our borders.
Lawrence Seligman, former police chief for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Tohono O’odham Nation

T. Mike Andrews, as a Washington insider, has written an excellent book exposing the war within the ‘war on drugs,’ waged daily by federal and state law enforcement agencies in their fight for ‘turf’ . . . . This book is a must-read for anyone involved in or considering a career in law enforcement.
Barton J. Fears, State’s Prosecutor