The morning. Industry. The federal government. Philanthropies and civil society. Welcome to the 2019 summer meeting of the nations governors in beautiful song city utah. Please to once again come together with my colleagues. About the key issues of the day. Including outcomes for disconnected youth. Safer and smarter was. Investing in resilience. Cyber Security Workforce development. They all arrive at early learning. Innovative strategies. We will discuss how together, we can develop bipartisan approaches to improve the lives of all americans. Also want to acknowledge our International Best who have traveled from so far away to be here with us today. Please feel free to stand up as you recognize. From japan we are honored to be joined. He serves a special advisor to the japanese prime minister. Complimentary vice minister of foreign affairs. Japanese ambassador to the u. S. Going to japan. We are joined by governor dominguez. What are you . The chair which is mexicos equivalent of mga
Colleagues. Colleagues about the key issues of the day. Including outcomes for disconnected youth. Safer and smarter was. Investing in resilience. Cyber Security Workforce development. They all arrive at early learning. Innovative strategies. We will discuss how together, we can develop bipartisan approaches to improve the lives of all americans. Also want to acknowledge our International Best who have traveled from so far away to be here with us today. Please feel free to stand up as you are recognized. From japan we are honored to be joined. He serves a special advisor to the japanese Prime Minister abe. Complimentary vice minister of foreign affairs. Apanese ambassador to the u. S. From mexico, we are joined by governor dominguez. Where are you governor . He is the the chair which is mexicos equivalent of mga. From canada we are joined by a delegation of senators. Members of parliament from a canadian federal government and officials from ontario and quebec. [applause] were also exc
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 wor
Aspects of security. Security at the ports of entry is just as important as security between the ports of entry. And, you know, since then weve seen efforts and i think trade community has responded. Congress has responded. Weve seen bills to add more officers. We need other resources at the border. I think at first the only resource were being drawn from southern ports of entry and our first point was what about the airports . What about the seaport . What about the northern ports . You cant pick just one area and say well thats the only area that will get hurt. So beyond that weve seen may 7th, tomato duties went into effect. Now duties on mexican tomatoes. When tariff threat came up, that would have equalled 25 tariffs, 3 billion in tariffs just on what we eat and that constitutes a food tax. In the meantime we had these issues. Thats a glimpse into what we see at the border but we cant stop and think that we cant move forward because theres a lot of things we can move forward on. I
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