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Each of the nation’s border regions provides a nexus point where three transnational threats converge: drug trafficking operations, alien and contraband smugglers and terrorist groups. The border is not merely a physical frontier. Effectively securing it requires attention to processes that begin outside U.S. borders, occur at the border and continue to all interior regions of the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) views the border as a continuum of activities where the physical border is the last line of defense, not the first. Consequently, CBP’s strategies address the threats and challenges along the entire continuum. To ensure that its unique capabilities are focused on areas where they will have the greatest operational impact, the Office of Air and Marine (OAM) deploys assets in support of CBP and Department of Homeland Security missions in the Southwest Border Region, Northern Border Region, Southeast Border Region, extended border region and interior operations. |
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