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
Talk about what restore American Parts is and what the Pew Charitable trust is. The restoring parts campaign started three years ago at pew and we are focused on protecting National Park resources, cultural resources, Natural Resources by addressing the deferred maintenance backlog at plaguing our National Parks system. Currently there are 12 billion worth of repairs that needs to be done across our parts nationwide. Os have been underfunded the ks entire time or is it something that happened over the past few years suddenly . Its been happening over a number of years, the past edecade or more for another reason, our National Parks service is over 100 years old. And he is silly and infrastructure parks are deteriorating, a lot of the infrastructure is reached the end of its lifespan read you that over 300 million visitors come to our parks each year, that had some pressure and yet absolutely right, theres just not enough funding eachyear for the Parks Service to keep up with repairs. L