I am chris wilson, the Deputy Director of the new Mexico Institute here and i lead our work on the u. S. Mexico border along with other things. We are pleased to be partnering with the Border Trade Alliance again on our sixth annual building competitive u. S. Mexico border,. The u. S. Mexico border especially when viewed for washington or on the National News media is understood principally as a risk. Entranceal enters. 4 iteris the task, a risk for jump trafficking, a risk of unauthorized immigration, and it is in a sense all of those things. It does represent some risk. The u. S. Mexico border is absolutely an integral part of our Homeland Defense system as well as good policing and plenty of other pieces of that system. But the border is so much more than that. The border is much more than a risk to me represent an opportunity. Already the four u. S. And six mexican states present the fourth largest economy in the world. Already we have about half a trillion dollars of u. S. Mexican
Go. Good morning. So, welcome to the Wilson Center. We are going to get started today. I am chris wilson, good morning. Welcome to the Wilson Center. Were going to get started today. Im chris wilson, Deputy Director of the Mexico Institute he here. I lead our work on the u. S. mexico border, amongst some other things. Were very pleased to be partnering with the Border Trade Alliance once again on the sixth annual border conference. I would say too often the u. S. mexico border, especially viewed here in washington or the National News media is understood primarily as a risk, Entrance Point for a terrorist attack. Something that, thank goodness, has never occurred to this date. Its a risk for drug trafficking, and risk for unauthorized immigration and in a sense it is all of those things. It does represent some risks. It is absolutely an integral part of our home Defense System along with International Partnerships and good policing across the country and plenty of other pieces across t
In this portion of the event, senator john cornyn of texas spoke about border security, crossborder trade, and the u. S. Mexico trade agreement. This is 30 minutes. Me know when it is time to go. Good morning. So, welcome to the Wilson Center. We are going to get started today. I am chris wilson, the Deputy Director of the new Mexico Institute here and i lead our work on the u. S. Mexico border along with other things. We are pleased to be partnering with the Border Trade Alliance again on our sixth annual building competitive u. S. Mexico border,. The u. S. Mexico border especially when viewed for washington or on the National News media is understood principally as a risk. Entranceal enters. 4 iteris the task, a risk for jump trafficking, a risk of unauthorized immigration, and it is in a sense all of those things. It does represent some risk. The u. S. Mexico border is absolutely an integral part of our Homeland Defense system as well as good policing and plenty of other pieces of t
Before they operated on him. The president and steve boone reason helping out the future, i guess. Because every time they endorse a candidate, the candidate fails. Its fun. Well, i mean, i dont know if its fun. Im having fun this morning. Whats that about, louis and aymon, i dont get it. Who a remarkable night. I got to tell you, it was a night. It once again proves that nobody knows nothing. There was a joke, somebody tweeted the early exit polls could show that john kerry was going to be the next president of the United States but he tweeted that, to which john kerry tweeted too soon. Too soon. At 10 00 last night, i had been told by top alabama officials across the state that there were not enough votes for doug jones. This was at 10 00. Then i talked to some people at nbc and other places, its too early to call this. But it certainly seems to be going against doug jones. Then boom it showed he was going to lose six out of the seven swing states. That didnt happen. The vote verse a
too. barack obama is not doing too great with hispanics himself right now. i don t know a pathway to citizenship guarantees you get 44% of hispanics voting for him. not now. chuck? but i think you have to look at this as a ten-year plan. look. it s not going to magically happen overnight but if you lessen the hostility, right? and then you chip away and you re able to have a hispanics i mean, i think the problem that is going on is look at the spanish language television. the biggest story they cover over the last year, when it comes to washington national news, is immigration. telemundo television spend a lot of time covering this issue. if, all of a sudden, that is solved, then it just opens the door, then, you know, have a lot of republicans who believe they could have a conversation with hispanics on school choice, they could have a conversation with