And ice and the Important Role that these important agencies play and making the Us Mexico Border a competitive usmexico border so we are excited to have our guest are here today. Whether youre in the private sector, trade organization , if youre here, if you have anything to do with the border, you care very much about your ongoing relationship with cbp but certainly the case for us as a border trade alliance, our relationship, our partnership, the communication is critical. As cbp ensures Border Security and the efficient movement of people across our ports of entry. Were grateful for cbps work to increase border wait times which is one of the most challenging barriers to trade. Today yesterday and hopefully not tomorrow. Its my great pleasure to introduce john wagner, hes debbie assessed and commissioner for the Field Operations at us customs and border protection. He began his federal lawenforcement career in 1991 when he joined the Us Customs Service as a customs inspector and worked at the new York New Jersey seaport and the land support border port of entry at laredo texas before being assigned to headquarters. You have a fan club here. Serving in his current role since 2014, Mister Wagner oversees nearly 30,000 employees including approximately 20,000 cbp officers and 2400 cbp agricultural specialists. An annual operating budget of 4. 8 billion provide for operations at over 330 ports of entry and many programs that support the National Security, immigration customs and commercial trade related missions of cbp and in the 25 years plus of service Mister Wagner has been a leader in developing many successful transformative efforts for the organization including the development of global entry programs and the automated passport control kiosks for International Travel holders. Overall Mister Weiner is recognized as a driving force between many of resource saving time saving and timesaving initiatives. While enhancing security operates at the port of entry. Please join me in welcoming Mister Wagner, deputy executive assistant commissioner. Going to have to sit in the whole title. Is too long. At the top long title in washington. I lived and worked in laredo from 1993 to 1999. Were talking about it in the hallway that i was the menudo champion in 1999. We got a trophy. How do you earn that . Its a story i cant tell here but maybe afterwards because its quite a story. Thank you for the kind intro and i appreciate the opportunity to talk about what were doing in cbp. The border, the challenges today are just like weve never seen before. To start with a migrant crisis, everyone knows, we are encountering record numbers like weve never seen before. Just an unprecedented flow of people coming through the border and its impacting the whole country. Its impacting everything were trying to do and its impacting both countries really and weve got to figure out ways to Work Together to solve these. Earlier this month the us and mexico got together to talk about some of thesechallenges. And the vital importance of the teamwork between both countries and we agreed to strengthen the cooperation and find better ways to really secure the border and make the border a lot more efficient. But the overwhelming message, the border is openfor business. Its vital to both countries that have remained so and it remains secure and our Border Patrol agents, our officers, we recognize that delicate balancing act. That defines their duty, protect the border and enforce the laws while facilitating trade and travel and its a dual mission, they work in conjunction with each other. To that end, were determined to manage this Border Security crisis which is a humanitarian crisis. As best we can while ensuring the border remains open and all of the other work we do around the country and around the world continues to operate. The importance of this is leveraging a lot of technology and a lot of cooperation. You may have heard about our unified cargo process. This is something we dont with the government of mexico and onestop Business Environment for processing inbound and outbound cargo and truck rental and eventually air modes. Innovative concepts, we work with sap and mexico and do join cargo clearance and joint cargo examinations. The benefits, what weve seen enhances security on both sides. Its a streamlined operation. Weve seen the percent or greater reduction in wait times. Weve seen a 99 percent trade compliance rate part for participants in this and lowering the cost of business for everyone in these operations. We started this in laredo. Still laredo proud after all these years. When we launched a cargo reinspection pilot for southbound commercial air cargo in october 2015. We readily expanded this unified cargo process ever sent across the southwest border. Most recently we went to the port of a copy and were doing the unified process for northbound commercial trucks since last september. So for next steps were meeting collectively with sap and our colleagues in the Canada Border Services agency and working on joint criteria for unified cargo processing in the air cargo environments. We plan to launch this soon in phoenix at eight gateway user the airport and were discussing other expansion locations primarily in texas to capitalize on the unified cargo processing immediate crossborder trade benefits. So as we talk about the technology and our nonintrusive inspection systems, this is a program weve built over theyears. Last, i worked on the border inlaredo , and the only technology wehad was a drill. And the tractors drove all over them, we had a brass mallet and we got the tax but thats all we had been. I think we had one big xray machine in overtime mesa and one in far texas but it took years for us to build up this capability. That was hundreds of systems out there. And we dont this fleet of this nonintrusive inspection equipment and we dont have to drill holes in things anymore. We think about okay, whats next . Where do we go with this next and congress was generous to us last year. We were given over 500 million to build out, recapitalize that fleet. Some of this equipment is 15, 25 years old but we dont want to buy the same stuff so we challenge ourselves, what can we do next. This has the potential to transform how we do cargo processing on the border and if we can, our vision is to build these drivethrough systems where the truck could drivethrough and we could have a high energy and the lowenergy system , operating at the same time we would use lowenergy on the cat where the drivers in their highenergy on the cargo. And we can centralize where these images go to. We can have algorithms help us interpret that data. Not only can we potentially had 100 percent of the trucks coming in, we can do it quick where the trucks might not even have to stop. We might have to stop for long to do that. And if you look at how we build out facilities, and how we can wrap the trucks differently through our facility take advantage of this, and if we can hi all this in together and ill talk about facial recognition a little later but we can do facial recognition on the truck driver when they pull up and the transaction and the stands and all this work and automated. Theres potential there for us to completely transform again how we do those truck inspections. Were testing some of the lowenergy drivethrough systems right now and i think brownsville where we do antitrucks driving through and seeing how that works while we work with the vendors to build highenergy components so we can do loaded vehicles as well but you see when the trains can come through slowly and we can image and scan train as it comes by theres no reason we cant build a similar system for trucks. You think about the potential of what that brings to all of us to be able to build out those systems. To all the communities and operators working with us to build these out and as we test this equipment out over this year into next year, we really look forward to doing this and time into the advances we made with rfid mention the facial recognition, biometrics. The license plate readers. Poor people, were looking at Self Reporting applications on a smart phone. Its really going to be an exciting time for us over the next couple of years as we develop new concepts and new ideas. One of the things we like to pride ourselves in cdp is never satisfied with the status quo. Coming up on our 230 year anniversary. The end of july with the formation of the Customs Service and i look at iterations over the years of what weve been able to do and we do that by the commissioner now acting secretary mac delaney once coined the phrase we will be relentlessly selfcritical and i hope you see us as partners in that, that were always going to challenge the status quo and find better ways to do things. So the facial recognition, were doing a lot of work at theairport and a lot of work at the seaport. Were trying some things out in vehicle lanes and pedestrian lanes at the border. Were trying to capitalize on dale we already have. Already everyone already has a travel document it means weve already got photos of people so why not use those in a way that really efficient for the people crossing the border. Lets figure out ways to do this as the cameras get better and better, we can take a picture match against that travel document without us having to handle the documents or lead tomorrow iv stand and as we build out system to do this, were just crossing the border and what is look like and should we equip officers with body cameras and as were talking to travelers or Truck Drivers, it automatically kicks the face of matches against the travel document, automatically runs all the queries we need to run in our systems and how much time can save us, how much more secure can make us and more accurate can make us too. Again, a lot of exciting developments as we do this but i say we are open for business. It also means automating our processes and how we handle routine in the low risk entries. And it frees officers and devote more attention to highrisk cargo. More importantly it helps all of your members, americas import and export Community Want to do business faster and of course more securely. Ace is a great example, block chain technology, how that fits in. Going to find a way to figure that out. We look at all the things happening in the Consumer World today, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, robotics, predictive analytics, innovation and we want to incorporate the how the government does business and we want to do that in partnership with all of you. We look at also the theres still a human element. The staffing piece of what we do. For years, we struggled with a staffing, especially on the southwest border. We have a high turnover rate there. We struggled to hire officers kindly and keep those vacant positions funded. Congress is very generous to us a couple years ago, gave us 2000 officers in our budget and for a couple years we could onlyhire 1000 of them. Im glad to report this year , based on the work we started last year, where we hired about our attrition about 300 officers, this year we are on pace to higher thousand over attrition, or potentially 12 or 1300 over attrition, our normal attrition is 7 to 800 year nationwide. Were looking to hire over 2000 cbp officers this year so by the end of this year we should have all of those vacancies build our funded level for congress for the first time in many years and of course that frees us up to go back and ask for more and say we can hire them, i dont want to say the hiring process is fixed because it will take a long time but theres things were working on doing that. Its aboutfocusing our recruiters around the country. Building up what we call destination guides so if we are recruiting in chicago and we have vacancies in el paso we can talk to job applicants about the benefits of living and working in el paso or any other station where we need to but weve been out talking a lot of the chambers of commerce and how do you sell the city to attract business . If we could bring 100 federal employees down there, convince people these are great places to live, i went from new york city to laredo and i voluntarily did that, i went to spain and how did i take that experience and translate that into people coming out of the military or College Graduates or other people interested in this work and to have these, sell them on the agency, thats always easy and how do we sell them on the work we do and go to the locations where we perform this work and whats so great about living and working there and convince them of all that but weve kicked off some what we call fast track hiring process, a little pilot we ran and we took a handful of applicants and things with hr, when you apply for a job you go to the bottom of the pile and you got to wait 10, 12 months but what if we preevaluated people to put easy applicants on the top right, how quick would we hire somebody. We hired somebody and normally takes 10 to 12 months, we hire somebody in 26 days from start to finish. And the officer went to laredo, thats where they went. We had a motivated applicant and we found a spot for that person within a month and we hired a handful of people within 30 to 45 days so now we incorporate them into the hiring process and i know if we can hiring process, also we can attract quality applicants into our workforce because they need a job and they wanted job quickly. Who has 12 months to wait for a job, somebody else will scoop you up in the meantime but we plan to hire, where making plans for potentially several more thousand next year. Depending of course how the budget shakes out and see what our vacancy rate is at that point. But our position should be filled and this is critically important because even with the migration crisis and some of the challenges and struggles we had in managing that and we got 700 officers right now yelled from around the country just to the Border Patrol station. We started with a bunch from the southwestborder , we saw the truck back up and the card back up. We went to the airports and seaports and start detailing people to the Border Patrol stations to help them out. And really just the care and processing of the migrants as they go into that process and get work done. But this is really the only way were going to survive our southwest border is fairly well staffed to what were funded for right now. And its really if we didnt have at this point, it would be catastrophic on us right now if we didnthave that. So were still pushing the hiring very strongly, still hiring process, working on now it becomes a training problem and how you get so many people through the academy and get them through quickly. We just jammed three more classes through this year and i think were going to train over 2000 new offices this year which are recordbreaking numbers. In the past its, we were lucky to do 700,000. So were really pushing that hard because the people are the best part of our workforce. Technologies great. But we need the people, we need the people to interpret and the people to interact with you and think of new things to do and come up with better ways to do things. So as we look atbuilding a competitive border , it requires all of us. We have to adapt, adjust and accommodate the change and id like to mention the pace on us is alwaysrelentless. The first customs modernization act in 1993. A whole probably a couple of generations ago. That year we witnessed a grand total ofwebsites in the whole world. I was, i dont think he sold his first book yet. And at the time, the socalled act was considered radical and gave cdd or customs back then new enforcement authorities but it created the National Customs automation program. Anybody remember that one . But like everything else, trade has undergone a massive transformation and we look at the ways of doing business today, ecommerce, look how that just offended out we do things. And the volume of e packets we get in the mail. Coming from china and around the world and how to do this new, these new business models. We just cant sit back and say you have to do it this way because weve always done it that way. Earlier this year, thanks to the input of our trade stakeholders in our partner government agencies, we unveiled a map of the road ahead. Our 21stcentury customs work , those five key pillars. First we believe that ace and in our other systems function as important infrastructure, is just as important as our roads and bridges and we want to ensure a self funding stream so infrastructure will not fail our stakeholders and ourpartners need it most. And is building on our commitments to one Us Government or one usg. Cbp wants to use the data we gathered through pace more effectively so were looking at data sharing opportunities with take holders and Partner Agencies allowing all parties to make that are informed decisions, more timely fashion and thirdly we want to make sure we work with our Industry Partners to identify roles and responsibilities that may exist outside our current definitions and forth, we support intelligence enforcement, the concept of working with the stakeholders to improve Risk Management and impact our efforts to defect highrisk activity, to deter noncompliance and her fraudulent behavior. And lastly we recognize that 20thcentury trade processes cannot support 21stcentury trade. Many of our procedures are designed for large containers on ships and the shipments are no longer entirely representative ofhow International Trade operates so we have to figure out a way to adjust. Will talk about the us and ca for a minute. If you work on that. Countries are reviewing it to determine what new legislation is required prior to passing it. This includes provisions that directly affect cdd and Homeland Security operations including Customs Enforcement, trade facilitation and integration. In the entry of forced into this when was really a historic milestone in us trade policy. As it was five for the first time the us renegotiating or replacing the existing freetrade agreement. Theres large sections of the old master that remain untouched. The agreement doesnt change the old terrace structure on most manufacturing and agricultural goods but it provides unique opportunities for us to enhance our trade mission. And it codifies ambitious Customs Enforcement and trade facilitation standard while adapting to a modern Technology Driven trade landscape that didnt exist when nafta first started so just to conclude and then open it up for a couple questions, if we have time but we dont view the shared orders as dividing lines. This is really a powerful scene that do not the two nations. We have to continue to challenge ourselves to find better ways to make it more efficient and make it more secure and im pretty confident based on the work that weve done for many, many years were going to continue to challenge ourselves to find better ways to do things. So thanks for the opportunity to be here and ill open it up for any questions you may have. [applause] im going to take the liberty of asking the first question. If i may. Cant have my menudo recipe. I still want to know how you earned the title. So you talk about the hiring and the 2000 officers that are going to the academy this year. Were still lacking still the 700 agents that were taken from the southern, northern border and airports and seaports. Is that the priority to replace those positions that have, that are no longer there. We greatly appreciate the return of the agents but were still experiencing huge delays at many of our ports of entry which even before the staffing was an issue. How do you prioritize . The 700 not permanent relocations. When we can, if the migration crisis comes to an end or becomes more manageable, those officers will deploy back to their ports of entry. But at this point, theres no plans or indication that those are permanent reassignments. So how much longer this goes on is tough to predict right now, the numbers are still staggering but as that starts to hopefully die down, those officers will redeploy back. Thats the struggle and the challenge we got to figure out. The hiring right now, most of the vacancies is a couple of the large airports are struggling with vacancies on the southwest border. We still got work to do in arizona and calexico but thats where those vacancies will go. These officers, the expectation is they will go back. The timeframe, were hoping its shorter rather than longer but thats what weve got to plan for area and it will be a tough summer to get through if this continues because you just cant pull 700 officers out and deploy them into that sort of primary mission. And the mesa is still down one lane. Otitis stuff. Its fully staffed at this point and that helps because we can move some people back and forth but theres no way to pull 700 people offline so to speak and put them to this activity but again, this activity is also essential to what were trying to do. We tried to spread it out around the country the best we can go one place isnt impacted worse than others. I appreciate that. We have several questions but we will start here quick. Then go to sam. Thank you for your service and i agree, they should have served at laredo, one time or another but my question is given the environment were in today, if you had your choice between technology and more blades on port of entry, what would you prefer in regard to the efficiency of our port of entry operations . Recognize we cant always just up and build bigger ports and more lanes, how do we maximize the infrastructure that they are today . And are we maximizing that . Is the technology such that its not creating additional work mark where not creating additional gauntlets . Too often when we throw something out and it creates 12 or more people to run it and were trying to infuse the technology to make that transaction more efficient so we can get more input through the existing infrastructure while we also work to expand. All right sam. Border alliance, public policy. Commissioner wagner, weve been through a lot of the permutations that youre talking about from 1993, the modernization, the staffing. I dont see a lot of focus on binational highfiber lines going to the ports of entry. And that seems to me to be the backbone of any future unified cargo processing concept and i dont see anywhere of that coming into a request for funding by cbp. Were trying to do it in small ports because we want to improve it. They cant put all the people on the internet at the same time to do the work. So what about that kind of stuff . Thats a great point is we rule out all this technology and do we have the electricity to plug it in . Do we have the lines, the internet lines to make it work . I think we got to look at that infrastructure but thats a great point , yeah. We will take a look at that too but weve had that challenge in a lot of places. Mayor darling. Jim dunham from mcallen, i wonder when we are going to return to the mexican policy on the eastern side of the border. We are either discussing this pretty aggressively, i dont have a date to announce just yet but we are critically aggressively pursued in theright locations and where to do that. Are we coordinating with the authorities in the city . We should be. Thank you, smart border coalition. You laid out a number of technology facial recognition , cell phones and such. Where do you see cbp in the next five years as far as implementing these things and are you considering across the entire southern border . What are your priorities as far as the technologies . You will see us start rolling, some of this being rolled out as we speak, some of these systems like an iis systems help build that, we design it, build it and test it but over the next couple of years, shortterm i see this stuff coming out and really starting to change the landscape of how trucks and cars and people move back and forth across the border. Then we got to think about what should the facility look like, what way should the trucks go . Could we actually have a truck rolled through the border without stopping. Theres some value in an officer talking to the driver scanning the whole truck, do we need that . I think those are the things that we will start to figure out as we test this and see the capabilities of it and what it does for us but i see dramatic change within the next five years, im pretty confident were going to roll out a lot ofthese systems, a lot of this technology. Get out of this process in the booth, typing data in or forms. And getting rid of a lot of that, thats really our focus. Make the precious Human Resource as efficient as can be and focus on the work that we need the officers doing, not so much doing a scripted transaction in a booth, be it a truck or a car. Where pedestrians comingin or at the airport. We still have too much typing, i want to get rid of the keyboards, get rid of the mice, get rid of all that technology on the border. We still have officers with the mouse in the primary booth and we had young adults coming out of college and they go once a mouse . Weve got to rebuild a lot of that stuff and that work is underway so within the next five years are going to see dramatic case changes. The facial recognition where testing in the pedestrian lanes, really spectacular results. Thirtysomething imposters and a couple of months coming through with documents and they know the camera is there. After the first few hours Everybody Knows its there but we will roll that out, we tested in the vehicle lanes, cameras thatcan see inside the vehicle. We could capture highquality imagesof people in the cars. Yet how we use that and what we do with that, weve got a lot of work to do on that and what the infrastructure requirement behind us to mark we have a license toplug it in and can we move pictures back and forth this quickly. Weve got a lot of teams and dedicated focus to do this and were committed to doing it but he and i systems are really going to be a big driver of this i think. Thanks very much, its been a fascinating conversation. If one of you could talk to us about, theres been many programs either sensory or fast, special programs for a special segment of traffic to be moved through faster. And often times, cars need to wait in a line mixed together with all the other traffic for a while before they get to that special lane and get that special passage so how do you think about as youre rolling out new technology how much of it is going to be available to everyone versus portion thats just a special program and then what are you doing to incentivize having more people or more companies, more Truck Drivers and role in the special programs that we dont keep running into that challenge . Because i know the physical infrastructure is a big part of the challenge but we have to be realistic that we can always just build the special lanes out as far back as we need to. What we need to do is in my opinion, get more of the traffic over to that special lane because obviously it worksbetter. But how are you thinking about that and of balancing between special programs, general traffic and figuring out how to make sure that as were deployingthese technologies , actually improving overall input not just for a special segment that might get stuck somewhere else. Its like the special programs, their special poor reason, theyre not going to be for everyone as if everyones in it back to where you started in away. But the people that are going to cross, the trucks that will cross frequently, people that will do business frequently, weve got to leverage their experience in crossing the border and build a way, a trust component in that too segment that traffic outso we can deal with the rest. Yes, theres absolutely physical limitations and as you go over the bridge and onto the other side and youre into the city streets, so we need some help from the transportation authorities, the City Planners and helping us build for the future and how far she goes lanes go back . If we go out to our arizona california where there is no bridge , how do we manage that traffic in the city streets on either side to do that . One thing that we felt was pretty successful at sand uc drone, to get people into the century lanes we said our goal is to have a 15 minute wait for less than the century lanes and we will open up enough lanes to try to keep to that. And then we divided the rest of the lanes by the ready lanes to people with an rfid enabled documents for everybody else will keep that ready lane wait to half of what the regulators and we try to manage those boots because really flipping a switch to convert them, changing the sign at the top and make sure that were keeping up with our promise that if you enroll in the special programs and jump through all those rooms, to get involved , theres a meaningful benefit for you. But if it takes you still an hour to get to the lane to use it, it defeats the purpose so thats something weve got to continue to work and we need a lot of help from all of you on. Were not experts in the logistics of the transportation and how many lanes and we get into the city streets and we have no expertise in the area so we really need all ofyou to help us with that. Sit down with us and talk about the ideas, whats the right way to move this type of traffic through the border crossings back and forth. Thank you john duncan, thanks for being here. Id like you to comment on the potential for expanding preclearance in mexico and also the potential for collaboration with mexico in mexican ports. I think thats an area where perhaps we havent explored enough. Preclearance, where around the world trying to talk to different airports about how to expand our clearance operations. We think its a Great Security model. We think its a great facilitationmodel. Its easy on the travelers when you can clear dvd before you depart. And to do that, but it gets into the negotiation then on ones with the Airport Authority on the space within the airport, where it would operate, where the airlines are going to park. Which gates would be available, how do you secure that space . And then the negotiations with the government authorities that would allow us to operate on their soil. Under what conditions and what would be be allowedto do or not allowed to do, whats permissible. Within the defined face that we can do that and then the cost, about who funds the cost and how its paid and how do we reach agreements on that and then for our employees, its a privilege and immunities of working there and their families and the residences where they work and go to School Depending on how they view the operation. Its a lot of work to go through to do that, but were committed to that preclearance model. We think it addresses again a lot of not only security facilitation but also the cooperation, when were on site with our colleagues from the other governments and stakeholders from the other government, it billed that natural cooperation and builds out a lot of the communication and forth. So you think about the benefits of that that it brings to so were committed to doing this, were still talking to a lot of Different Countries about whats the right fit to do it and who would allow us to do it. And what the impact on the us airports. Are there domestic gates you can park . Some of the airports are full so we have to figure out where those planes could come in if they dont have to come to the customs arrival all to do that but we really think its definitely a priority for us. And were continuing just work through a lot of those negotiations. Other question was . It was about mexican ports. I think that their potential for great cooperation there. We have cbp officers around the world in our continuing Security Initiative program and being on site working with our colleagues in the other customs agencies, that flow of medication and intelligence and expertise back and forth, pays dividends for both countries. And working in partnership to look at risks that both countries are going to be concerned with. It might not always be the same but there always compatible. And the systems and techniques to uncover them are always compatible. Even if you look at a commercial violation versus narcotics versus National Security criteria, theres always a path in the middle to figureout. What are the tools and techniques that we use to identify these and do the inspections and doit in a way that most efficient . I think theres a Great Potential to expand on a lot of work out there now. I think we had another question over there. High commissioner, thanks for being here. Ryan bradley. I was wondering if you could talk a little about any plans to boost recruiting and retention ports of entry in rural locations. One of the key things weve done in our hard to fill locations, some are rural, some art but weve been offering hiring bonuses, we will pay upwards of 25, sometimes 30 percent of the officers three years of salary to go to these locations and that was key in how we filled a lot of the southwest border court. We had them in california and texas across the border. A smattering of places along the northern border, doing it in San Francisco right now because the cost of living there, its tough for us to recruit people to live there, but those hiring bonuses have put out well over 1000 of those in the last couple of years and were seeing most of the officers will stay at least those three years to attain those bonuses to do that and from there, we have various we call them lateral reassignment policies where officers have the opportunity to go to other points of entry. They have the opportunity to transfer. They have the opportunity to swap with other officers around the country through preclearance, they have the opportunity to go overseas. There always welcome to come to washington and work for me. I dont get too many takers on that but we try to build out that career path to so its not just about selling first station that youre at riyadh its about what does your career look like when you work for us . And selling the full capabilities of the agency to these young adults that want to come work for us. Thats really proven successful to do that. Thats where weve seen our record numbers of hiring. We have enough people in the pipeline right now to hire a couple thousand for next year. I think we have enough applicants right now that as they work their way through you could hire a little over 3000 officers next year provided we have the funding to do so and the ability to train that many but again, those are good problems to have. But were not slowing down on the recruiting and the hiring incentives to do that. But part of it like i mentioned earlier to was packaging up about whats great about working at different places around the country and as we recruit around the country, lets just not recruit for our local ports but recruit nationwide and weve got to get our recruiters train about whether they can, where do we need people most western mark whats it look like to look in overtime asap if im in new york. I heard about it but whats it really like . We are creating guides that show the cost of living and the school options, the entertainment options. All the cultural things that are there, the housing costs, how much money youre going to make, what your overtime pay is going to be, what is your Retention Bonus going to be, your foreignlanguage bonus and whats your daily work life like so we can recruit people to all the different places where we need them. So we can cover the entire country and get people to do that so this targeted focus recruiting has helped us as well. Arbitration, its generally about four percent a year and i mentioned earlier that 752 to 800 officers, most of our patrician more than half of it is officers retire of this occupation, so we dont feel , we dont see a lot of people quitting, a lot of people going to other agencies. Theyre coming in and spending their career with us and because most of them are leaving through retirements or taking jobs in the agency out of the uniform series, its like another 20 percent. So you look at 70 percent of our patrician is there thing within cbp or retiring so were Pretty Healthy there. Now its just about getting those initial applications through the process and we are hard at work on this. We dont want to slow down any of this moment. We appreciate the time youve taken. We had a hearty discussion, allowed for many questions so i appreciate everybody participating. I want to reiterate again our thanks. Many of the conversations weve had today were focused on the different panelists and speakers talking about the need for cooperation and coordination and not just with border stakeholders but with your counterpart, your counterpart in mexico. You guys really have done a tremendous job working with your counterpart in mexico. We commend you for that. Its critical for all of the stakeholders involved so again, i want to applaud you for that. We look forward to supplemental appropriations bill which is now going through or being considered, many of us are pushing for that and we need to support the needs and the current demands, increasing demands that we have today so you again for taking the time to be with us. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible] the senate expected to be back later this afternoon. Lawmakers are expected to hold the confirmation vote for Daniel Grannis to become a circuit judge for the ninth circuit. If confirmed, he would be the 42nd Circuit Court judge and the 126 judge overall to be approved by the senateduring the trump administration. And also later today, lawmakers plan to work on more us district judge nominations. When the senate returns, live coverage on cspan2. Were back with martial artist whose theproduct director for restore america , our pew charitabletrust, thank you for being with us. Thanks forhaving me. First of all,