International Regulations Vs Usa

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International regulations were developed to create standardization between countries. If every country created its own security policies and regulations it would to enforce and would make it difficult for anybody interacting in the system. Standard procedures will create uniform rules that will be easier to follow and allow better communication between countries regarding security. Enforcing the regulations can be difficult and has led to treaties and international organizations. United States laws are only valid in the United States. Once a person leaves United States land the U.S. can no longer pursue the person and enforce the laws. (GPO 2002) It will take co-operation between countries to enforce laws once somebody has left the country. …show more content…
to prosecute a person after they have fled the U.S. or broke laws while out-side the U.S., they will need to be brought to the U.S.. The U.S. will need another country to ex-tradite the person back to the U.S. Once the person is back in the. U.S. they can be processed through the legal system. The U.S. does have an extradition treaty with over 100 countries to help facilitate the extradition. (GPO 2002) Even if a country is part of the extradition treaty it doesn't mean extradition will always happen. Soering v United Kingdom 161 Eur. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) (1989) is an example of an extra-dition not happening with a country. (ECtHR 1989) The European Court of Human Rights (EC-tHR) found that extraditing Jen Soering violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Hu-man Rights (ECHR) guaranteeing the right against inhuman and degrading treatment. The Unit-ed Kingdom and the U.S. have a extradition treaty but if the UK complied with the treaty it would have violated European …show more content…
The U.S. was attached by Al Qaeda and was organized out of the caves in Afghanistan. (History 207) The U.S. started Operation Enduring Freedom, which involved many different countries invading one. The Taliban were ruling Afghanistan and protecting Al Qaeda. This was deemed a threat to global security and led to the war, which overthrew the Taliban and also tracked down Al Qaeda. The U.S. used Guantanamo Bay as a prison for suspected terrorists that were deemed as terrorists and to be tried for violating U.S. laws. (CNN 2015) This is an extreme case of the U.S. tracking people down internationally to prosecute