: HOMELAND SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 

: HOMELAND SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

                                       Canada information sharing

Canada is one of the countries that engage in information sharing. Canada is a member of the Five Country Conference (FCC), which allows countries to cooperate and share information between the agencies of border and migration among all the member countries. The member countries include the united states, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Canada runs immigration checks based on fingerprints and shares this information with other partners of the FCC through an arrangement for sharing immigration information known as the high-Value Data Sharing protocol (Arbel, & Brenner, 2014).

Canada and the united states, under a program of sharing information on visa and immigration, engage in an exchange of biographic data. This agreement was signed in the year 2012 and gave both countries a mutual obligation for sharing both biographic information and also information based on biometrics. An arrangement between Canada and the united states allows both the Canadian citizenship and immigration department and the agency for services of the border to share information with the DHS of the united states. Information shared includes visa information and immigration data. This act of sharing information is a step towards enhancing security, developing countermeasures fraud, mobility promotion, and also ensuring efficiency at the shared borders (Arbel, & Brenner, 2014)..

International homeland security

The homeland security does not end at the borders, but it also operates internationally. To ensure that the united states have enough homeland security, the department of homeland security focuses on what happens in other countries. Foreign homeland security allows collaboration with other countries in the protection of the border, law enforcement, and also countering terrorism. The international homeland security’s structure includes programs that would enable a smooth sharing of information with the United States’ homeland security department, and even their policies are often adjusted (Baggett  & Simpkins, 2018)

References

Arbel, E., & Brenner, A. (2014). Bordering on failure: Canada-US border policy and the politics of refugee exclusion.

Baggett, R. K., & Simpkins, B. K. (2018). Homeland security and critical infrastructure protection. ABC-CLIO.