The Office of the Secretary oversees coordination with other entities on all levels of government, including private, for various aspects of homeland security, to include intelligence analysis, security of the borders etc. The Office of the Secretary is made up of many offices to include, the Office of Civil rights and Liberties, Office of General Council and even a private sector office. Technological advances as well as changes in strategy by advisories meaning to do harm to the United States, makes the Office of the Secretary a challenging one. Some critics of DHS, point out that even with its formation, there are still too many departments within DHS and should be consolidated even …show more content…
The largest of these is the BTS. “Border and Transportation Security (BTS) is the largest of the five directorates and is focused on securing the nation’s borders and transportation systems and enforcing the nation’s immigration laws” (Oliver, 2007 p. 82). Border and transportation security has been really been brought to the forefront due to the illegal immigration discussions in politics as well as the possibility of terrorist from overseas entering the United States from other adjoining (Mexico and Canada) countries due to lax border