Next, Homeland Security secretary john kelly looks at immigration laws and what can be done to make them stronger in the future. He spoke at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council for about 25 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. As people are filling into the room, i will start giving the secretary a schedule. My name is jason, im a director of the Atlantic Council Latin American Center and id like to extend and especially welcome to secretary kelly, president , two or three task chairs, foreman for affairs maria, and ambassador. [inaudible] and the many investors joining yesterday. Feel free if you want to take out your phones to treat using about this event, Central America now. It gives me great pleasure to announce that after a year of intensive deliberations today marks the findings of our northern triangle security Economic Opportunity task force which is now available on our website. This is a blueprint for how the us and the country of el salvador,
It is also timely, because we are in imminent danger of dismantling the north american experiment that we had told with mexico and canada in the past 25 years. It is a mystery to me, and i suspect many of you, how we got fact,s point when, in and nafta have been a huge Foreign Policy success. Of tension and reproach, the north america experiment has fostered a stable , safe boundary protected by trade, culture, history and a 1. 5 billion dollars crosses the rio grande every day. Mexico and canada are now two of our top three trading partners. After supports 14 million jobs in the United States. Nafta supports 14 million jobs in the United States and that also includes jobs in canada and mexico. It has created a unique era of trust that has brought unprecedented security cooperation, intelligence sharing, antinarcotics enforcement, antiterrorism security. Proof of the reality of this partnership is found in mexicos border with guatemala where at our request mexicos efforts to stem the f
Our trade architecture which had been a winning architecture since the end of world war ii was to make wins and increase the econom it is also timely because we are in imminent danger of dismantling the north american t and its predecessor. Those rules of the road have brought us to the kind of economic level that we have had today. Instead of tension and rekrim nation and reproach. T has fossterd a safe boundary and 1. 5 billion crosses. Reyeoh grand. The past two decades created a unique era of trust between the nation that has brought unprecedented security cooperation, intelligence sharing, antinarcotics enforcement, antiterrorism security, happened daily. Proof of the reality of this partnership is found at mexicos askedwith guatemala where our request mexicos efforts to stem the flow of essential american refugees take an enormous burden off our order control. Todays rhetoric is forcing mexicans everywhere to question the unquestionable. Did the country make a mistake 25 years ag
Our trade architecture which had been a winning architecture since the end of world war ii was to make wins and increase the econom it is also timely because we are in imminent danger of dismantling the north american t and its predecessor. Those rules of the road have brought us to the kind of economic level that we have had today. Instead of tension and rekrim nation and reproach. T has fossterd a safe boundary and 1. 5 billion crosses. Reyeoh grand. The past two decades created a unique era of trust between the nation that has brought unprecedented security cooperation, intelligence sharing, antinarcotics enforcement, antiterrorism security, happened daily. Proof of the reality of this partnership is found at mexicos askedwith guatemala where our request mexicos efforts to stem the flow of essential american refugees take an enormous burden off our order control. Todays rhetoric is forcing mexicans everywhere to question the unquestionable. Did the country make a mistake 25 years ag
Test. Test. Test. Test. Lets look at the americas. Were fragmented. Were splintered. Aside from nafta, theres, you name it. The pacific alliance. A lot of different things. But there isnt one americas. The crown jewel we do have is nafta. And i hope we also think about the role that our region plays as we are competing with other regions in the world. Hemisphere, go to asia. That is a reality. And it becomes an economic reality and a National Security reality. And a massive shift of wealth from the east to the west. If we could get our act together regionally and build Energy Supply chains. We have the oil. We have the gas. And this is the time when we can be doing that. And the seventh largest economy in the world. The seventh largest economy in the world. Our southern neighbor and canada will always be one of the most developed per capita income economies anywhere. The world has changed in 23 years. So the labor chapter, the environmental chapter. Look at rules of origin and think ab