• Course Syllabus

1. Review Orientation to Canvas Materials.

Other Readings

• United States Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (2013). Border Security: Frontline Perspectives on Progress and Remaining Challenges
  • Required: Download and read member and witness statements
  • Optional: Watch the video of the testimony.
• McConnell, F. (2010). The Fallacy and Promise of the Territorial Trap. Geopolitics, vol 15(4), 762 - 768.

1. Scavenger Hunt Writing Assignment
2. Measuring the Success of Bordering Discussion

Other Readings

• Bector, S. (2009). "Your Laptop, Please" The Search and Seizure of Electronic Devices at the United States border 
• Clark, M.W. (August 2004). U.S. land border search authority. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, vol 7(8). Retrieved from: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin: http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/leb.htm.
   

1. "Your Laptop Please" Writing Assignment
2. How Intrusive is Too Intrusive? Discussion

Other Readings

• Deportation of Criminal Aliens - A Geopolitical Perspective
• Svirnovskiy, S. (2017). Finding a Right to Remain: Immigration, deportation, and due process. Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, vol 12(3).
• Jordan, M. (January 8, 2018). Trump administration says that nearly 200,000 Salvadorans must leave. The New York Times Online. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/us/salvadorans-tps-end.html?partner=bloomberg

1. Deportation: Myth vs Reality Writing Assignment
2. TPS Discussion

Other Readings

• 19 U.S.C. 1701-1711. (2002). Anti-Smuggling Act of 1935. (pp. 1039-1043).
• Bowerman, M. (December 11, 2017). U.S. Coast Guard intercepts semi-submersible vessel packed with 3,800 pounds of cocaine. USA Today.
• U.S. Department of Transportation (nd). Aviation Smuggling Investigators Handbook.
• Casavant, A.J. (2017). In defense of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act. Harvard National Security Journal, vol 8.

1. Aviation Smuggling Redux Writing Assignment
2. Coast Guard Seizure of Submersible Discussion

N/A

1. Quiz One
2. Research Paper Topic

Other Readings

• Ferraro, V. (July 1996). Dependency theory: An introduction. Mount Holyoke College.
• Lipset, S.M. (March 1959). Some social requisites of democracy: Economic development and political legitimacy. American Political Science Review, vol 53(1), pp 69 - 105.
• Kazeem, Y. (January 30, 2018). A legal loophole has enabled years of environmental damage by global oil companies in Nigeria. Quartz Africa.

1. Dependency and Modernization in Africa Writing Assignment
2. Social Science Perspectives at the Border Discussion

Other Readings

• Everett, Lee. (1966) A Theory of Migration. Demography, vol 3(1), pp 47-57.
• Matsueda, R. L. (July 1988) The current state of differential association theory. Crime & Delinquency, vol. 34(3), pp 277 - 306.
• Hirschmann, C. (July 18, 2004). Migration and National Security
• Piore, M. (May, 1986). The shifting grounds for immigration. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol 485. pp 23 - 33.
• Raphelson, S. (January 30, 2018). Border Patrol Faces Backlash from Aid Groups Over Migrant Death. Here & Now, npr Special Series. Retrieved from:  https://www.npr.org/2018/01/30/581879808/border-patrol-faces-backlash-from-aid-groups-over-migrant-deaths.

1. Immigration Labor Market Writing Assignment
2. Differential Association on the Border Discussion

Other Readings

• Bruno, A. (September 16, 2016). Syrian refugee admissions and resettlement in the United States: In brief. Congressional Research Service.
• Rabasa, A., et al (2009). The Lessons of Mumbai

1. Vetting Refugees Writing Assignment
2. Lessons from Mumbai Discussion

Other Readings

• Beittel, J (2013). Mexico’s Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Violence
• Department of the Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcment Network (February 18, 2010). Advisory to financial institutions on filing suspicious activity reports regarding trade-based money laundering.
• DHS - ICE (November 23, 2010). ICE takes down Puerto Rican drug lord, dismantles largest drug trafficking organization in the Caribbean 

1. Drug Trafficking and Recruitment Writing Assignment
2. Money Laundering Discussion

N/A

1. Quiz Two
2. Research Paper Abstract

Other Readings

• Bliss, K. (2009). Trafficking in the Mesoamerican Corridor
• ​IACP guidebook. Developed by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
• Radden Keefe, P. (April 24, 2006). The snakehead. The New Yorker Magazine.
• UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (2011). Anti-human trafficking manual for criminal justice practitioners. 

1. Human Trafficking Writing Assignment
2. The Snake Head Discussion

Other Readings

• Motivans, M. (2013). Federal Justice Statistics 2010

1. Federal Justice Statistics and Immigration Writing Assignment
2. What to Do About Illegal Immigration Discussion

Other Readings

• National Gang Intelligence Center (2015) 2015 NGIC Gang Report. 

1. Criminal Street Gangs Written Assignment Writing Assignment
2. When the Gang Comes Home Discussion

Other Readings

• Harbaugh, E. E. (2004). Proliferation Security Initiative. Strategic Insights, vol 3(7). (The article is titled The Proliferation Security Initiative: Counterproliferation at the Crossroads). 
• Shea, D. & Gottron, F. (April 17, 2013). Ricin: Technical background and potential in terrorism. CRS report for Congress

1. Catching Arms Dealers Writing Assignment
2. The Greatest Threat Discussion

N/A

1. Quiz Three
2. Research Paper Submission