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He spoke at the brookings institution. I would like to welcome you to the forum on u. S. Customs and bOrder Protection. The event is live. We would like to welcome our national viewing audience. Many of you know that customs and Order Protection is the Largest Law Enforcement Agency and provides the second largest revenue. They cease drugs undeclared or illicit currency, and products with intellectual Property Rights violations. The agency works hard to safeguard the borders and enhance legitimate trade and commerce. Our speaker is gil. He will speak on his insights from leading the agency and look at the highlights, in terms of his vision for moving forward. The agency put out a new document that lays out what the agency would like to do. The commissioner was nominated by obama and sworn in the last year. He oversees a mission of protecting National Security objectives. He brings four decades of Law Enforcement and drug policy to this. He served as the director of the White House Offi
Overseas if we had a preclearance locations. We have global entry located overseas. We are working towards that together. The secretary is driven towards that goal and i think we are in the process of doing that. I would differ to my colleague from cbp to answer some of that as well. If you would please. Looking up at different arrival experience. Its getting rid of forms for them to fill out. Its motivating selfservice kiosk that not only gives them a better strength but helps us be more efficient and more secure in what we do. Saying things like global entry that frequent lowrisk travelers keeping a program like that. We are getting 60 to 70,000 applications a month for that program. Its been steady like that for the last yeartoyear and a ha half, tremendous uptick in that program. Usage can vary from five to 10 depending on the day the week but it tends to trend with business travel. Later in the week we see those percentages increase up to 10 of total arrivals. Automated passport c
To deploy automated passport control kiosks known as abc. These are like the exact change booths. The administrator portion of the arrivals process thereby reducing the overall interaction time with the cbp officer and allows the cbp officer to focus on the security aspects of that inspection process. In the past year 16 airports are launched apcs and several more planned to join by the end of year. All of these airports that have launched these kiosk we have seen average wait times decrease by 30 to 35 after the installation of kiosks. We have also automate the for 494 arriving at seaports of entry. We have the arrival information from electronic record taking into processes easier and faster for travelers in addition to using reducing hc cause. We are are looking for Paper Production formed to eliminate the process. We envision several ways to use the internet mobile device kiosk and seeing the options available like when checking in for flight. Effective secures should be a travel f
Push factors. Ive seen these reports. People are fleeing difficult conditions, theyre reuniting with family in the United States, theyre fleeing Economic Uncertainty and failed governments both locally and nationally. So the conditions youre talking about, the crime, the uncertain conditions, the poor conditions economically, what has changed dramatically would you admit that the numbers have increased dramatically . There is no doubt about that. So is there a corresponding increase dramatically in poorness of conditions in these countries south of the border . Its been a while since those conditions have existed. So there seems to be an awareness that is perpetrating among american citizens that things have exponentially decreased south of the border and thats increased this immigration south of the border to the United States. I dont know if its true and you dont know of any metric that would support that. Not metrics. So do you think that there is any difference in our policy . And