White House has nominated and aim to appoint Kirstjen Nielsen as new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security after John F. Kelly.
Nielsen, who worked for the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) under George W Bush, has extensive professional experience in the areas of homeland security policy and strategy, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure and emergency management.
She will be in charge of over 240,000 employees and will be responsible for the US borders including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), aircraft safety, immigration policy and refugee policy.
Just a month ago, it was revealed that Facebook has more than two billion active monthly users. That means that in any given month, more than 25% of Earth’s population logs in to their Facebook account at least once.
This kind of scale is almost impossible to grasp.
Here’s one attempt to put it in perspective: imagine Yankee Stadium’s seats packed with 50,000 people, and multiply this by a factor of 40,000. That’s about how many different people log into Facebook every month worldwide.
The Yankee Stadium analogy sort of helps, but it’s still very hard to picture.
The scale of the internet is so great, that it doesn’t make sense to look at the information on a monthly basis, or even to use daily figures.
Source: WEF
Before the Brexit referendum there were not that many articles about the consequences of leaving a Customs Union. One of the few articles that on beforehand pointed out some of the challenge ahead after a port-Brexit scenario, was written by my good friend Dr. Andrew Grainger.
However if there was a lack of articles about Brexit consequences in the Customs area before the referendum that has certainly been compensated afterwards. Every day The Guardian has a new article about Brexit related to movement of goods and people.
I am personally heavily engaged in the Brexit affairs related to Customs, Borders and Trade – both on the UK and EU sides. More about that shortly.
So if you want to know more about Brexit, this is the place to be. I am convinced that Brexit is the biggest change for Customs in our time. Bnver before a country has left a fully integrated Customs Union re-establishing its own Customs procedures at the border. Exiting times.
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