“An absence of consensus about the inclusion of these policy areas may result in unintended consequences for national homeland security operations,” the CRS report said. Most do not include border security, or maritime security, or immigration matters, or general resilience, though some do.
Many but not all encompass disaster response. Most official definitions of homeland security include terrorism prevention. government does not have a single definition for ‘homeland security.’ different strategic documents and mission statements offer varying missions that are derived from different homeland security definitions.” “Ten years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. The existence of multiple, overlapping and inconsistent definitions of the term “homeland security” reflects and reinforces confusion in the homeland security mission, according to a newly updated report from the Congressional Research Service.
