Border Action Plan News Today

Promoting economic freedom at home and abroad is essential to revitalizing the U.S. economy. In 2010, the United States fell from the ranks of the economically free countries in the Index of Economic Freedom and, in the years since, the U.S. has continued a steady decline.

In a world confronted from Venezuela to Ukraine with real and tangible threats, the promotion of economic freedom at home and abroad has become essential not only for the revitalization of the U.S. economy, but also for U.S. national security.

The right approach to joint U.S.–Canada security serves to emphasize the two nations’ economic and diplomatic ties.

In 2011, the United States and Canada announced a joint strategy—Beyond the Border—to boost security in, and facilitate the flow of goods and services between, the two countries.