The US Customs and Boarder Protection agents are served with the challenge of securing the boarders of air, land and sea into the United States. They are a work force of about sixty thousand employees nationwide. Agents are faced with having an average of over 2 million people a year crossing into the boarders of the United States. Their jobs are to detect the illegal entry of contraband, drugs, weapons, animals, and people trying to gain illegal entry in or out of the United States. At the same time while still trying to regulate the lawful acts of international trade and travel. The majority of boarder agents wear their …show more content…
International airports are placed all over in the United States and fly past the main borders when coming from a different country. The same rules apply to these main “points of entry” that exist both on land and in the US water boarders. These locations might not be necessary at the main boarders of the country but the same rules apply. A traveler would find themselves with the same border regulations at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada. Even though in Las Vegas, Nevada, the closest international boarder is over 300 miles …show more content…
An example, would be an immigrant truck driver who’s daily job is to drive goods into the San Diego boarder of California from Mexico. That worker does daily drives, establishes a relationship with customs and boarder agents because they see him on a daily basis but loaded within the driver’s tires are mass quantities of narcotics. The customs and boarders might see this individual on a daily basis, searched him in the pass and found nothing. They might also see all his paperwork check’s out and might think he’s just doing his legitimate job and not traffic drugs concealed within the vehicle. A constant state of vigilance needs to be with any agents regardless who travels under the