Homeland Security Project

In this first publication of the Belfer Center Homeland Security Project Paper Series, Alan Bersin and Nate Bruggerman write about the dramatic changes in numbers of migrants crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico and the urgent need for attention and response from the U.S. Congress and executive branch of the government.

Juliette Kayyem discusses the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act, which Congress with broad bipartisan support and was signed into law in October 2018. The US Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security—which are tasked with its implementation—have missed two deadlines  to file implementation reports to Congress, thus failing to satisfy a legal requirement.

Barry Bloom, former dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security at the Harvard Kennedy School and a former Department of Homeland Security official, sat down with the Harvard Gazette to share their thoughts on the measles outbreak and likely ways forward. Bloom comes at the problem from the public-health viewpoint, and Kayyem from that of public safety.

Juliette Kayyem explains the significance of the recent Virginia Beach active shooter's use of  a suppressor and its threat to understanding and training for active-shooter cases in the future.  She also advocates for regulating and eventually banning suppressors as a common-sense gun control measure.

Juliette Kayyem characterizes President Trump's new immigration proposal as a collection of platitudes put together by his son-in-law Jared Kushner and then provides a detailed critique of it.

Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elemendorf announced this week that Juliette Kayyem has been promoted to Senior Lecturer.

Juliette Kayyem outlines the case for penalizing parents who cause a public safety crisis by not having their children vaccinated. The tools of public safety — arrests, fines, isolation — are absolutely necessary.