Bureaucratic duplicity.One reform proposed by the Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States may make sense: combining the jobs of the customs, immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. , and agriculture inspectors. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. enough to know about the merits of the agriculture-inspector part, but when you come into this country you have to wonder why you always have to deal with two different sets of people in Customs and Immigration, when one person could look at your passport passport Document issued by a national government identifying a traveler as a citizen with a right to protection while abroad and a right to return to the country of citizenship. It is normally a small booklet containing a description and photograph of the bearer. and luggage LUGGAGE. Such things as are carried by a traveller, generally for his personal accommodation; baggage. In England this word is generally used in the same sense that baggage is used in the United States. See Baggage. and ask the questions that need to be asked. When I worked for the Peace Corps, I was asked to conduct a study to see if there were some headquarters jobs that could be eliminated. What I discovered was that practically no one was doing nothing. Everybody did something useful, for at least part of the day. But there were a lot of overlapping jobs that could have been combined. For example, the selection, training and program officers spent a large part of their day in necessary communication with one another. If the three jobs had been made into one, a lot of meetings and phone calls could have been avoided. |
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