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