The SMU Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center would like to invite you to the webinar titled:  “Texas-Mexico Border: Challenges and Cooperation.” Our Senior Fellow, Raymond Robertson, will speak with Matthew J. Roggow,  U.S. Border Patrol Acting Chief Patrol Agent for the Big Bend Sector, to find out what the current challenges are in that sector of the Texas-Mexico border and discuss the Big Bend Sector’s collaborative efforts with their Mexican counterparts.

Date: Monday, March 4, 2024, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. CT

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. To register and access the zoom link, please click below.

Featured Lecturers:

Raymond Robertson, Senior Fellow SMU Texas-Mexico Center; Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy; Professor; Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government

Dr. Raymond Robertson is a professor and the Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, as well as the Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy. He is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany, and a senior research fellow at the SMU Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center. He was named a 2018 Presidential Impact Fellow by Texas A&M University. Robertson earned a B.A. in political science and economics from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a visiting professor in the Department of Economics at the Graduate School of Administration at Monterrey Institute of Technology’s Mexico City campus. Widely published in the field of labor economics and international economics, Robertson previously chaired the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Advisory Committee for Labor Provisions of U.S. Free Trade Agreements and served on the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy.

Matthew J. Roggow, U.S. Border Patrol Acting Chief Patrol Agent for the Big Bend Sector

Matthew J. Roggow graduated with a B.S. in integrated studies from Champlain College with Summa Cum Laude honors, with an M.S. in Operations Management from the University of Arkansas and completed the Customs and Border Protection’s Leadership Institute.  He is the Acting Chief Patrol Agent (CPA) of Big Bend Sector. He assumed his duties as the permanent Deputy Chief Patrol Agent in Big Bend Sector on August 18, 2019. Prior to his assignment in Big Bend, Acting CPA Roggow served as an Associate Chief at U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters. After his promotion to Patrol Agent in Charge (PAIC) of the Sector Intelligence Unit in El Centro Sector in 2006, he worked collaboratively with internal and external partners to deploy technology allowing for the covert observation of smuggling activities, increasing the prosecutions of targeted smuggling organizations. A year later, as the Assistant Chief in Washington, D.C., he contributed to the first national-level standard operating procedures for intelligence units and oversaw the Northern Border Intelligence Pilot as a member of the SBInet, the Secure Border Initiative Network, team.

About the Big Bend Sector: it is composed of 77 Texas counties and 78 Oklahoma counties. The operational area is 165,154 square miles. The Sector is responsible for patrolling 517 miles of river front along the Rio Grande River which is the international boundary between the United States and Mexico. The Sector's border boundary is almost one-quarter of the country's Southwest Border.

Image invitation: photo courtesy of CBP Big Bend Sector.

Any person who requires a reasonable accommodation on the basis of a disability in order to participate in this program should contact the SMU Texas Mexico Center at texasmexico@smu.edu in advance at least 4 days prior to the event to arrange for the accommodation.

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