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Border Security Challenges After 9/11: A Conversation With Three Commissioners of U.S. Customs and Border Protection

September 09, 2011 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
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Co-sponsored with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection History Department

Commissioner Alan Bersin of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) joins former commissioners Robert Bonner and Ralph Basham in a discussion of border security since 9/11. This roundtable, facilitated by Professor Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown University, will examine how the federal government consolidated border security into one CBP in 2003 and how threats to the nation’s homeland have evolved over the last decade.

Location: 
6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
 
Event Speakers List: 
  • Bruce Hoffman // Distinguished Scholar
    Professor in Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where he is also the Director of both the Center for Security Studies and of the Security Studies Program.
  • Alan D. Bersin //
    Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • W. Ralph Basham //
    Principal, Command Consulting Group and former Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • Robert C. Bonner //
    Senior Principal of Sentinel HS Group and former Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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