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Global Tipping Points Series: "Border Insecurity"

When
Thursday, November 13, 2014
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
UNH Manchester, 400 Commercial Street, Manchester NH

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Thursday, November 13

6 PM

UNH Manchester

"Border Insecurity: The Latest on Immigration, Fences and Cartels from the US-Mexico Border"

Featuring Sylvia Longmire, Retired Air Force Captain and Intelligence Analyst

Sylvia Longmire will examine all the aspects of the challenge and thriving industry of trying to keep terrorists, drug smugglers, and illegal immigrants from entering the United States across our land borders as well as the latest on the Central American child migrant crisis.

University of New Hampshire-Manchester
Third Floor Auditorium, 400 Commercial Street, Manchester NH 03101
Directions & parking info here

Advance registration requested online, via email or by phone: 603.314.7970

Presented in partnership with UNH Manchester's history, humanities and politics and society programs

A program of the World Affairs Councils of America with support provided by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York

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ABOUT SYLVIA LONGMIRE

Sylvia Longmire is a retired Air Force Captain and a former Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. During her 8 years at the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, she conducted numerous criminal investigations and worked extensively in the fields of counterintelligence, counterespionage, and force protection. Longmire has been published in the Small Wars Journal, Henley-Putnam University's Journal of Strategic Security, the Journal of Energy Security, and the American Bar Association's National Security Report. She is also regularly featured in Homeland Security Today Magazine. Sylvia Longmire is currently an independent consultant and freelance writer, and is an ASBPE award winning columnist for Homeland Security Today.

She has written Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and has been nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has also written Border Insecurity: The Truth About America's Biggest National Security Threat (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

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