Experts meet at Baker Institute on U.S.-Mexico Border Project

Experts meet at Baker Institute on U.S.-Mexico Border Project

BY FRANZ BROTZEN
RICE NEWS STAFF

Eighteen experts on issues involving the U.S.-Mexico border met Dec. 7 at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy to discuss the institute’s border project.

GEORGE WONG

Experts from the U.S. and Mexico met Dec. 7 at the Baker Institute to discuss border issues such as immigration and security.

The focus of the U.S.-Mexico Border Project is on immigration and other sensitive and critical issues along the border. The scope of the program is to define problems, organize scholarly task forces to conduct research studies, formulate proposals and engage politicians at the highest levels of government in the United States and Mexico.

In addition to nine Mexican experts and their nine U.S. counterparts, participants in the brainstorming session included Edward Djerejian, founding director of the Baker Institute; Mark Scheid, managing director for Programs and International Studies at the Baker Institute; and Erika de la Garza, program director for the Baker Institute’s Latin American Initiative.

The Mexican participants were Ismael Aguilar-Barajas, professor of economics at the Instituto Tecnol