VII Border Legislative Conference
Chihuahua, Chihuahua
 July 8-10, 2004

Staff Activity Report

Summary of Actions

Minutes

Joint Declaration between BLC and USAID

 
Speakers and Presentations

Economic Development: Improving Competitiveness in the Border Region

Senator Jeffrey Max Jones
President of the Committee on Border Affairs
Member of the Federal Senate of Mexico

Lic. Carlos Murguia
Chair, Economic Development of the City of Juarez
City of Juarez
Economic Development of the City of Juarez (PPS)

Senator Eliot Shapleigh
Vice Chair, Committee on International Relations and Commerce
Texas State Senate
Improving Competitiveness in the Border Region (PPS)

Summary of U.S. - Mexico relations & Perspectives on the Immigration proposals currently in the U.S. Congress 

Juan Carlos Cue Vega
Consul General of Mexico in El Paso, TX

Maurice Parker
Consul General of the U.S. in the City of Juarez

U.S. VISIT Program:  Update

Anthony Ho
Special Agent, U.S. VISIT Program
Department of Homeland Security
Fact Sheet: U.S. VISIT Program

Report by the Environmental Committee of the BLC: The Abandonment, reuse and recyling of tires in the U.S. - Mexico border region

Diputado Humberto Valdez, Tamaulipas
Co-Coordinator of the Enviromental Committee of the BLC

Senator Denise Moreno Ducheny, California
Co-Coordintor of the Environmental Committee of the BLC

• Environmental Committee Report (PDF)

• Tire Legislation in the Border States of Mexico (PDF)

• Tire Legislation in the Border States of the U.S. (PDF)

Western Governor's Association: Air Quality Efforts along the U.S.-Mexico Border and the North American Energy Summit

Rich Halvey
Program Manager, Mexico Air Quality Projects
Western Governor's Association
Denver, Colorado
U.S. - Mexico Air Quality Projects and the North American Energy Summit (PPS)

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Health Efforts along the Border

Barbara Felix
Coordinator of of International Patient Services
University of Arizona Medical Center at Tucson
International Patient Services Outreach to Mexico (PPS)

Molly Lindner, USAID
Efforts and Projects in Mexico focused on Health (PPS)