U.S. Department of Homeland Security

The United States Department of Homeland Security was established in November 25th 2002 , under the homeland security act of 2002 in to galvanize together the countries executive branch organizations that were responsible for maintaining the Home land security into one cabinet Agency . This move led to the inclusion of 22 agencies into the new found Department of Homeland Security (Department of homeland Security , 2008

The Department of Homeland Security Differs with the Department of Defense in that the latter is particularly concerned with Military actions outside the country while the former (DHS

) has a mandate to protect the country from within and at its bs with the main goal being to prevent , prepare for and respond quickly to local or domestic emergencies with particular reference being given to terrorism . Upon its initiation by the president (George W . Bush ) signing the bill into law in November 25th 2002 , and Tom Ridge being appointed its first secretary , it became apparent that this was actually one of the largest reorganizations in the US government after the creation of the US Department of Defense

In March 2003 the Department of Homeland Security did absorb the now non functional US Immigration and Naturalization Services taking over its duties and establishing two more agencies from the parent agency of which were the US Citizenship and Immigration services and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Department of homeland Security 2008 ) At the same time forming the US Customs and B Protection Agency that is charged with...