U.S.-Mexico 21 st Century Border Initiative

U.S.-MEXICO 21ST CENTURY BORDER INITIATIVE

Roger PetzoldFederal Highway Administration

Border & Interstate Team

Expediting Legitimate Trade and Travel

“Our shared border must be an engine, and not a brake, on our economic growth.”

President Obama, with President Calderon, May 19, 2010

US – Mexico Border

• The U.S-Mexico border extends 1,954 miles.• There are 45 active land border POEs and 9

international railroad crossings on the southern border.

Background

Joint Declaration on 21st Century Border Management

In May 2010, the United States and Mexico affirmed the importance of our shared border by issuing a Joint Declaration on 21st Century Border Management

Fundamentally restructure the way we manage the border to encourage: increased trade, enhance public safety, welcome visitors, and reduce the cost of doing business in North

America.

U.S./Mexico Executive Steering Committee

• The United States and Mexico created a bilateral working group, the Executive Steering Committee –(ESC),.

• The ESC is chaired on the U.S. side by the National Security Council Staff and Mexico by Presidentia

• Three ESC sub-committees separately address: Border Infrastructure; Law Enforcement and Security Issues; Secure Flow of goods and people across the

border.

21ST CENTURY BORDER

Secure Flows

Corridor SecurityInfrastructure

21st Century Border Agreement

Executive Steering Committee

2013 Action Plan

U.S./MEXICO

1/8/2010

21st Century BorderManagement IPC

NSSDHS, DOT, DOD, DOJ, USDA, State,

Commerce, GSA, OMB, ONDCP

NALS

Binational Bridges and

Border Crossings Group

US/Mexico Joint Working

Committee for Transportation Planning (JWC)

Merida coordination

process

Local binational coordination mechanisms and arrangements, Draft paper being developed (e.g., Bi-national Port Security Committees or Border Liaison Mechanisms)

Water Management

Border Environment

Emergency Management

Corridor Security

DHS-DOJDOD, ONDCP, IC, State

Secure Flows

DHSState, Commerce, USDA, DOJ,

DOT, USTR, IC, GSA

Info exchange &

liaison

Infrastructure Planning

State-DHSDOT, GSA, Commerce, EPA

Secure Flows

• Border wait time studies in the El Paso-Juarez area

• Construction of new cattle inspection facilities • Continued improving risk management and

targeting cooperation• Increase the enrollment of Mexican and U.S.

citizens in the Global Entry Program, • Establish a pilot pre-inspection pilot at Otay

Mesa and a pre-screening pilot at the Laredo Airport.

• implement lane segregation strategies• Others

2013 Achievements

Corridor Security

• Developed an investigative strategy that encourages increased intelligence-driven investigations

• Continued to implement the Border Violence Prevention Protocols (BVPPs)

• Identifying criminal networks of organizations that participate in firearms, drugs and bulk cash trafficking,

• Identified ways to improve collaboration on the identification and investigation of cross-border tunnels.

• Produced a joint study that assesses firearms and explosives trafficking

• Other

2013 Achievements

Infrastructure

• Support the San Diego-Tijuana Airport cross-border facility. • Support the Regional Border Master Planning processes• Support the Border Liaison Mechanism • Participation in the Binational Bridges and Border Crossings

Meetings and the Joint Working Committee on Border Transportation meetings.

• Through the Joint Working Committee, study the impact of Border Transportation on Air Quality at the border.

• Continued to support efforts by California and Baja California to conclude the financial studies for construction of the Otay II – East Otay Mesa border crossing.

• Support the construction of the West Rail Bypass project between Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

• Advanced the San Ysidro-Tijuana port of entry expansion project

• Additional Project Specific monitoring

2013 Achievements

High Level Economic Dialog (HLED)

- May 2013, President Obama and President Peña Nieto announced

- Advance strategic economic and commercial priorities

- 1. Promoting Competitiveness and Connectivity (Transportation, Telecommunications)

- 2. Fostering Economic Growth, Productivity, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation (Joint investment promotion, Making effective use of the North American Development Bank (NADB), Entrepreneurship)

- 3. Partnering for Regional and Global Leadership (Partnering to promote development in Central America, Transparency and anti-corruption)

HLED - Transportation ITS Border Wait Time Electronic Tolling Short Sea Shipping/Marine Highway Commercial Motor Vehicle Cooperation Freight and Corridor Planning

• Originated in 1994 via MOU• Coordinates Transportation Planning• Chaired by FHWA/SCT and formed of

Federal and State partners• Twin goals of communication and

coordination• Biennial Work Plans

U.S./ Mexico Joint Working Committee for Transportation

Biennial Work Plan Efforts

• Regional Border Master Plans• Border Modeling Peer Exchange

(Nov. 4-5, 2014)• Border Finance Workshop (May 23,

2013)• Border Wait Time Pilots (10)• Corridor/Logistics Studies

For more information

Sylvia GrijalvaUS/Mexico Border Planning Coordinator

Federal Highway AdministrationOffice of Planning

Border and Interstate Planning Team602-510 7986

[email protected]

The JWC website:www.borderplanning.fhwa.dot.gov/mexico.asp

THANK YOU !

Roger PetzoldOffice Of Planning

Border &Interstate Planning TeamFederal Highway Administration.

U.S./MEXICO 21ST CENTURY BORDER

INITIATIVERoger Petzold

Federal Highway AdministrationOct. 23, 2013

21st Century Border Agreement