<span>Immigrants agents are responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security. They may be interested in </span><span>who paid for an immigrant's passage and how much money the immigrant had prior to arriving in the country, to determine the security threat or economic struggles that the immigrant would bring to the country.</span>
A main goal of the monarchs of Europe during the Age of Absolutism was to "<span>B) centralize political power," since they were "absolute" in their rule--meaning that they did not want any interruption of their power. </span>
The Soviet Union by 1948 had installed communist-leaning governments in Eastern European countries that the USSR had liberated from Nazi control during the war. The Americans and British feared the spread of communism into Western Europe and worldwide.
