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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of the Department of Homeland Security. Internal troubles as well as organizational pressures are explored in the question of whether or not the department should be dissolved. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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intense scrutiny and criticism. In the first place, some claim that the scope of issues intended to be addressed by the DHS are already well handled by a host of
pre-existing institutions. Still others took issue with the fact that the DHS quickly absorbed some twenty two separate government institutions, including the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA). With internal struggles
such as a high vacancy rate even in executive positions, the DHS is still the subject of controversy some ten years after its inception. At last, many are beginning to
ask serious questions about the future of the department. Is the DHS just too complex, and would its agendas ironically be better served by its dissolution? Concerns about the
complexity of the Department of Homeland Security generally center on the fact that the department itself is a somewhat disorganized assortment of twenty-two other agencies. The administrative resources required to
effectively run even one governmental agency are colossal, and it seems appropriate to question whether or not a singular department has the capacity to effectively manage and administrate so many
agencies, and even if so, if those agencies might not be better off running themselves (Kamarck, 2007). To this end, some have suggested that the DHS should scale back its
scope and better implement its anti-terrorism agenda by focusing on the protection of the United States borders in conjunction with the National Guard and the Coast Guard (Kamarck, 2007). In
doing so, the DHS would lose those agencies like FEMA that it had previously absorbed, leaving disaster management to its own managerial logistics, and focusing purely on counter-terrorism security (Kamarck,
2007). In this capacity, DHS would interact directly with local and state intelligence offices instead of actively being involved in the acquisition of intelligence, a task at which it has
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