The short-term answer is more patrols and better cooperation with regional states; a long-term solution, alas, remains elusive.
Government officials in both countries trumpet success from more sea-borne patrols and better cooperation with African nations across the Mediterranean to reduce journeys that have flooded European countries with often-unwanted migrants and claimed thousands of lives in the last decade, experts estimate.
Today, Border Patrol is better staffed than ever before, with more than 21,000 border agents — up from about 10,000 in 2004 — deployed mostly along the nation's border with Mexico.
The president's plan to allocate $100 million to help Kenya and several other countries bolster antiterrorism efforts will go to help improve security at airports and ports, step up border patrols and develop better databases and intelligence sharing about terrorists.
Forest reserves, which are explicitly designed for forest protection but do not have on-site patrols, did no better than lands under no legal protection at all.
The search and rescue patrols would "help better tracking, identification and rescue of boats, especially migrants' boats", the commissioner's spokesman Michele Cercone said.
"The changes in the Police Department have helped us patrol the neighborhood better, because now we can respond more quickly and more visibly," he said.
In 2008 Silvio Berlusconi, then prime minister of Italy, and Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya had sealed an investment agreement based on the Libyan leader's promise to better patrol his country's coasts and close the "spigot" of migrants.
The idea, European and Israeli diplomats say, is to offer to reopen the Gaza-Egyptian border at Rafah under renewed European monitoring, allow Gazan exports through Rafah, push the Egyptians to patrol the border better, release a captured Israeli soldier, Cpl.
Broader ambitions should include a robot that can traverse more than the limited range of a desktop in order to better patrol the home.
