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Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Collaborative Mechanisms along the Southwest Border
GAO-14-494: Published: Jun 27, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 27, 2014.
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What GAO Found
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has coordinated border security efforts using collaborative mechanisms in Arizona and South Texas, specifically (1) the Joint Field Command (JFC), which has operational control over all U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) resources in Arizona; (2) the Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats (ACTT), which is a multiagency law enforcement partnership in Arizona; and (3) the South Texas Campaign (STC), which integrates CBP resources and facilitates coordination with other homeland security partner agencies. Through these collaborative mechanisms, DHS and CBP have coordinated border security efforts in (1) information sharing, (2) resource targeting and prioritization, and (3) leveraging of assets. For example, to coordinate information sharing, the JFC maintains an operations coordination center and clearinghouse for intelligence information. Through the ACTT, interagency partners work jointly to target individuals and criminal organizations involved in illegal cross-border activity. The STC leverages assets of CBP components and interagency partners by shifting resources to high-threat regions and conducting joint operations.
DHS and CBP have established performance measures and reporting processes for the JFC and ACTT in Arizona and the STC in South Texas; however, opportunities exist to strengthen these collaborative mechanisms by assessing results across the efforts and establishing written agreements. Each collaborative mechanism reports on its results to DHS or CBP leadership through a variety of means, such as accomplishment reports and after-action reports. However, CBP has not assessed the JFC and STC mechanisms to evaluate results across the mechanisms. JFC and STC components GAO interviewed identified challenges with managing resources and sharing best practices across the mechanisms. For example, officials from all five JFC components GAO interviewed highlighted resource management challenges, such as inefficiencies in staff conducting dual reporting on operations to CBP leadership. Best practices for interagency collaboration call for federal agencies engaged in collaborative efforts to create the means to monitor and evaluate their efforts to enable them to identify areas for improvement. An assessment of the JFC and STC could provide CBP with information to better address challenges the mechanisms have faced. In addition, DHS has not established written agreements with partners in the ACTT and STC Unified Command—the entity within STC used for coordinating activities among federal and state agencies—consistent with best practices for sustaining effective collaboration. Officials from 11 of 12 partner agencies GAO interviewed reported coordination challenges related to the ACTT and STC Unified Command, such as limited resource commitments by participating agencies and lack of common objectives. For example, a partner with the ACTT noted that that there have been operations in which partners did not follow through with the resources they had committed during the planning stages. Establishing written agreements could help DHS address coordination challenges, such as limited resource commitments and lack of common objectives.
Why GAO Did This Study
According to DHS's CBP, Arizona and South Texas represent some of the highest-threat areas along the southwest border for illegal entrants and smuggling. DHS and CBP coordinate border security with interagency partners, including other federal, state, local, and tribal entities. DHS established collaborative mechanisms in Arizona and South Texas to integrate CBP operations and improve interagency coordination.
GAO was asked to review DHS efforts to coordinate resources along the southwest border. This report (1) describes how DHS uses collaborative mechanisms in Arizona and South Texas to coordinate border security efforts, and (2) examines the extent to which DHS has established performance measures and reporting processes and how, if at all, DHS has assessed and monitored the effectiveness of the collaborative mechanisms in Arizona and South Texas. GAO analyzed documentation, such as campaign plans for the mechanisms; conducted visits to Arizona and South Texas; and interviewed CBP components and interagency partners selected on the basis of agency type and level of participation in the mechanism. Information from these interviews cannot be generalized to all components and partners, but provided insights into the mechanisms.
What GAO Recommends
GAO recommends that CBP assess the JFC and STC, and that DHS, among other things, establish written agreements with ACTT and the STC Unified Command partners. DHS concurred with the recommendations.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Open
Comments: When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Recommendation: To strengthen coordination within the JFC and STC, the Commissioner of CBP should complete an assessment of the JFC and STC, including evaluating the effects of these mechanisms, best practices that could be shared among the mechanisms, and any areas for possible improvement, such as management of resources.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security: United States Customs and Border Protection
Status: Open
Comments: When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Recommendation: To strengthen coordination among partner agencies participating in the ACTT and the STC Unified Command, the Secretary of Homeland Security should establish written agreements with interagency partners participating in the ACTT and the STC Unified Command.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security
Status: Open
Comments: When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Recommendation: To strengthen coordination among partner agencies participating in the ACTT and the STC Unified Command, the Secretary of Homeland Security should establish a strategic-level mechanism to monitor the interagency coordination efforts of the ACTT and the STC Unified Command.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security
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Stripping paint with a methylene chloride product in a tight bathroom space is a fast way to die, federal officials are warning contractors in a new Hazard Alert.
The Hazard Alert from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) targets workers who use methylene chloride-based stripping products in bathtub refinishing.
Tight bathrooms and methylene chloride-based paint strippers are a deadly combination, health officials warn.
Methylene chloride, commonly used in over-the-counter paint and finish stripping products, has been implicated in at least 14 deaths since 2000 of workers refinishing bathtubs. These workers were generally working alone, in poorly ventilated bathrooms, with inadequate or no respiratory protection, and no training about the hazards of methylene chloride.
The new OSHA-NIOSH Hazard Alert details methylene chloride's toxicity, safety precautions when using methylene chloride and employer responsibilities under OSHA's methylene chloride standard. OSHA's methylene chloride standard also governs the chemical's use.
Contractor Deaths
The alert highlights "just two of many similar cases" involving the death of contractors who work with the methylene chloride products.
In September 2011, the alert says, a worker using such a product to strip the glaze from a bathtub collapsed in the tub and later died. In February 2012, a worker using the product to refinish a tub was found slumped over the tub in an unventilated bathroom.
The workers were typically found to have been working alone; with little or no protective equipment or clothing; and/or in small, windowless bathrooms. Some of the deaths have involved the use of as little as six ounces of product, regulators said
Bathtub refinishing—removing the existing finish and recoating with an epoxy or polyurethane—has grown in popularity in recent years as an affordable alternative to fixture removal and replacement.
When the use of methylene chloride strippers cannot be avoided, safety precautions include protective clothing, respiratory protection, and ventilation.
Regulators note that when workers use methylene chloride to strip coatings from bathtubs, they often spray or pour a stripping product into the tub and then brush it onto the surface. Use of these chemicals in bathrooms is extremely dangerous, however, because bathrooms are often small, enclosed spaces with little or no ventilation.
Furthermore, because methylene chloride is a volatile organic compound that evaporates faster when sprayed, brushed, or poured, the chemical vapors can quickly build up in small spaces.
"This situation creates dangerously high concentrations of methylene chloride and even replaces the breathable air," the alert says.
Preventing Danger
Such deaths could be prevented by using alternative, less-hazardous chemicals or methods that eliminate the use of methylene chloride, health officials say.
If that is not possible, employers can still prevent deaths and illnesses by enforcing safe work practices that include adequate ventilation, respiratory protection, protective clothing and equipment, and thorough training.
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Ive had plenty boyfriends.But. I want to try something new. (;
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I am 17 years old and I have never gone out ona date, and have never been in a relationship. Like I've said in other experiences, I'm confused on my sexuality. So I'd like to find out what I'm into.
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Not allowed in this country India I'm afraid.All my life watching TV and watching the western world always wanted to have one. But in this horrible country its not allowed. Never going to be allowed to have one. I used to have this crush on my classmate few years ago but could never tell her how I felt because I would end...
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I'm 22 now and never had a girlfriend.But I'm extremely shy to nor am I good looking. Wished I had one, I'm extremely lonely. Someone to share laugh with, be myself around, be able to open up to, etc. Some people are just meant to be alone I guess.
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I never had a girlfriendand feel very left out seeing everybody else date but me.
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hi everyone I just woke up at midnightand thought I'll post my experience here because I feel so much emptiness inside for the fact I've never had a girlfriend, not even a friend who is a girl ever. it's all this ****** conservative country's fault (Pakistan) . men and women are segregated in almost all public...
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Im 16 in highschool and never had a girlfriend.I get so nervous around girls, yet so comfortable around guys. But i go home every night thinking about girls. I know im not gay, but Im starting to think people might think I am. I dont know how to talk to girls or kiss or anything. Girls definently give me chances, even girls...
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Well, I may be just 16,but I'm more mature than most adults out there. I am an awesome person. I always do new stuff. I am one of the most talented people one can ever find. I'm interesting, I'm funny, I ain't smart but I can fake that one easily. I was bullied during elementary school, junior high...
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Im still Bi-Curious aha,taking life slow aha xx
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I never had a girl friend at the first place.It's not lack of confidence or something. But I was never fond of having long term relationships right now. Sure, I'm good with women and have a good number of them as my friends. But I am not in that mood to have one.
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Nope.I don't really want one either. I'm happy liking boys.
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The day we meet Its been almost 22 years,but still i have not been able to date a girl. Sometimes that makes me feel like a impotent or I am seriously one? I see my peer and people around me living a great life with their partners. So is it that important to have a girlfriend in this era. So is it like if you are or...
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Yesterday in church I leaned over to my 7 year (and 7 months) old and mentioned something about Santa and Christmas . . . .you know, the rigamarole we feed our kids this time a year in the hopes that they will learn something about magic and joy and anticipation and innocence.
He looks over his glasses at me in a way that only he (and supercilious college professors) can. "Mom, there's no Santa."
At that moment, I'm backpedaling like crazy. It is church; it is quiet; my baby has grown up. "Who told you sweetie,"
"Mom (again, in THAT tone), I just figured it out. No Tooth Fairy. No Santa. No magic."
And just like that my last little one passed a terrible milestone, without a regret or backward glance. I wanted him to at least rage and cry and question so that we could have a real talk . . . one of the few talks I get right with my kids, the way my dad got it right with me. But, no, he is a practical and logical little fellow and facts are facts.
But, by golly, I needed the speech. So I whispered something to him about the real magic of Christmas being about love and sharing and at this rambling, hastily whispered point I know I am botching the speech and motherhood and all the rest.
He shrugs in response, not noticing the very real tears that are somehow leaking out my eyes, "I know how it works. You and dad just get up in the middle of the night and go shopping. You're Santa."
I smiled, relieved to know that he doesn't quite have everything figured out. I also understood in that moment one reason why people have big families--when one loses some measure of innocence and delight, there is always another coming along behind who will see the world with fresh eyes. When it is the baby . . . there is no one. And when your family is small, there are a lot of long, child-free years before the grandchildren come with their delight and faith and wonder.
I've read arguments against teaching Santa. I like some of those arguments and I can understand why some families choose these more factual and realistic approach to Christmas. But I'm like my little boy: practical and logical to a fault. Once a year I need to believe in a little bit of magic. I hope he understands that too when he has littlies of his own.
Having been outed, I feel like Christmas has certainly lost something special. I have a beautiful new home this year, turned out for Christmas in a way that has defied all my expectations and makes me so happy, but something will be missing too.
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Bobtail \Bob"tail'\, noun [Bob + tail.] An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
{Rag, tag, and bobtail}, the rabble.
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Bobtail \Bob"tail'\, adjective Bobtailed. "Bobtail cur." --Marryat.
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1: having a short or shortened tail; "bobtail mare" [syn: {bobtail}, {bobtailed}]
1: a short or shortened tail of certain animals [syn: {bobtail}, {bob}, {dock}]
2: large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain [syn: {Old English sheepdog}, {bobtail}]
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