Tournament: New Trier | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitney Young Magnet KF | Judge: Val McIntosh
Plan Text
The United States federal government should substantially invest in infrastructure and staffing at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Economy 1AC
Advantage 1- The Mexican Economy:
The Mexican economy is slowing now due to their contracting manufacturing sector
Harrup 7/1/13 Anthony Harrup is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. “Mexican Economic Data Point to a Sluggish Second Quarter” Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20130701-709139.html
Economists continue to ratchet down their expectations
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4 after lowering the rate by a half percentage point in March.
Mexican manufacturing will fail absent border efficiency
Rathbone ’13 June 27, 2013. John Paul Rathbone is the FT's Latin American editor. “Border: Bottleneck at frontier chokes opportunities to boost trade” Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/dcd40966-c79c-11e2-9c52-00144feab7de.html#axzz2Z9yVTltb
Borders are always strange places and few are stranger than the US-Mexico border
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a bottleneck in another area,” said the 172-page report.
Manufacturing is key to Mexico’s economy
Aeppel ’13 June 28, 2013. Timothy Aeppel is the Economics Bureau Chief at The Wall Street Journal. “Mexico Manufacturing Looks to Gain Competitive Edge on China” The Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/06/28/mexico-manufacturing-looks-to-gain-competitive-edge-on-china/
Mexico’s strengthening factory sector is helping boost that nation’s economy
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export around Asia, because that still makes sense.”
Mexican economic growth is key to the world economy
Zehnbacht ’12 November 13, 2012. Gil Zehnbacht is a Search Engine Marketing Expert at ProTradingIndicators. “Will Latin America be the Next Engine for Global Economic Growth?” ProTradingIndicators. http://www.protradingindicators.com/news-market-analysis/will-latin-america-be-the-next-engine-for-global-economic-growth
But Brazil will not be the only Latin American country working
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leading economic demand around the world in the years ahead.
The impact is large: economic growth is crucial to address all global challenges
Silk 93 — Leonard Silk, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Pace University, Senior Research Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and former Economics Columnist with the New York Times, 1993 (“Dangers of Slow Growth,” Foreign Affairs, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via Lexis-Nexis)
Like the Great Depression, the current economic slump
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and more liberal and open economies and societies.
And, economic decline causes global conflict
Auslin 9 (Michael, Resident Scholar – American Enterprise Institute, and Desmond Lachman – Resident Fellow – American Enterprise Institute, “The Global Economy Unravels”, Forbes, 3-6, http://www.aei.org/article/100187)
What do these trends mean in the short and medium term?
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small explosions that coalesce into a big bang.
Mexican collapse causes U.S. isolationism
Haddick 8 (Robert, Managing Editor, Small Wars Journal, former U.S. Marine Corps officer, advisor for the State Department and the National Intelligence Council on irregular warfare issues, former Director of Research at the Fremont Group, http://westhawk.blogspot.com/2008/12/now-that-would-change-everything.html, MH)
There is one dynamic in the literature of weak and failing states
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there would be no running from a Mexican collapse.
Hegemony prevents multiple nuclear conflicts
Brooks, Ikenberry, and Wohlforth ’13
(Stephen, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College “Don’t Come Home America: The Case Against Retrenchment,” International Security, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Winter 2012/13), pp. 7–51)
A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents
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potential rivals is by many measures growing rather than shrinking. 85
And, the plan solves- BI helps positively impact the Mexican economy
Schneider ’07 February 2007. Schneider National, Inc. is the premier provider of truckload, logistics and intermodal services. “Frequently Asked Questions: e-Manifest” http://www.schneider.com/www1/groups/public/@marketing-public/documents/dctemplate/acemanifest_faq.pdf
Access to advance shipment data enables CBP
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Canadian economies, benefiting consumers and business alike.
Mexican manufacturing will grow if there are efficient borders
Park ’13 March 2013. Jim Park is the Equipment Editor for Truckinginfo and has been a truck journalist 13 years. “Transborder Trucking” http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel/fleet-management/article/story/2013/04/transborder-trucking.aspx?prestitial=1
Looking down at the U.S.-Mexico border at places such as Laredo and Juarez
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That's where future growth potential lies.
Border 1AC
Advantage 2- The Border
Border weakness is a growing concern- terrorists are attempting to exploit inefficiencies in defenses to bring nuclear weapons into the US.
McCaul ’12 (MICHAEL T. McCAUL CHAIRMAN UNITED STATES HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, INVESTIGATIONS, AND MANAGEMENT http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/11-15-12-Line-in-the-Sand.pdf November 2012 “A LINE IN THE SAND: COUNTERING CRIME, VIOLENCE AND TERROR AT THE SOUTHWEST BORDER”)
¶ Terrorism remains a serious threat to the security of the United States
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Iran ¶ or its agents would attempt to exploit the porous Southwest border for retaliation.
The U.S–Mexican border is a hotspot for international terrorism
Murdock, 4/25 - Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor, a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service, and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University (“The Southern Border: Our Welcome Mat for Terrorists “, 4/25/13, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346591/southern-border-our-welcome-mat-terrorists)
There are at least 7,518 reasons to get the U.S./Mexican border under control.
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“i helped a lot of Somalis and most are good but there are some who are bad and i leave them to ALLAH . . . ”
And, weaknesses at the US-Mexican border are a unique threat.
Bartell and Gray 2012(Dawn L. Bartell Norwich University Masters of Diplomacy David H. Gray¶ Campbell University http://globalsecuritystudies.com/Bartell20Hezbollah20and20Al20Shabaab20in20Mexico.pdf Fall 2012 “Hezbollah and Al Shabaab in Mexico and the Terrorist Threat to ¶ the United States”)
The inability of Mexico to secure its sovereign territories and border areas has contributed
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conduct terrorist operations against Mexico, the United States, or any other state in the international community.
Bilateral border investments are crucial to U.S.-Mexico relations.
Baker Institute 9 — The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University—a nonpartisan public policy think tank, 2009 (“Developing the U.S.-Mexico Border Region for a Prosperous and Secure Relationship,” Baker Institute Policy Report, Number 38, April, Available Online at http://www.bakerinstitute.org/publications/LAI-pub-BorderSecPREnglish-041509.pdf, Accessed 07-26-2013, p. 1)
The relationship between the United States and Mexico has historically been a strong one
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that are more likely to hinder, rather than promote, common goals.
And US-Mexico relations key to prevent terrorism
Alden et al 9 (Edward Alden, Senior Fellow at CFR, and Director of CFR’s US Immigration Policy Report. Chairs: Jeb Bush, former FL governor, and Thomas McLarty, former Chief of Staff to President Clinton and senior international fellow at the Chamber of Commerce. Task force members included Allen Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education and former Foreign Service professor at Georgetown, Gordon Hanson, professor of economics at UCSD, Robert Putnam, professor of public policy at Harvard, Andrew Selee, director of the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute and professor of government at Johns Hopkins, Margaret Stock, former professor of law at West Point, and Raul Yzaguirre, professor of practice in community development and civil rights at ASU. “US Immigration Policy” Independent Task Force Report No. 63, Council on Foreign Relations 2009 http://www.cfr.org/immigration/us-immigration-policy/p20030) will
Mexico, along with Canada, is also a vitally important
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United States needs to step up efforts to reduce the demand for¶ illegal drugs that is fueling the cartels.
Increased efficiency at land POEs solve illegal crossings
Meissner et al 13 Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director, MPI US Immigration Policy Program Muzaffar Chishti, Director, MPI Office at NYU School of Law Donald M. Kerwin, Executive Director, Center for Migration Studies Claire Bergeron Research Assistant with the US Immigration Policy Program at MPI, “Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery,” Migration Policy Institute, 2013, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/enforcementpillars.pdf
The POE mission is arguably the most difficult and complex element of border security.
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rather than risk their lives crossing illegally between ports.
Reducing illegal immigration with border efficiency lets the border patrol focus on counterterrorism – status quo undermines ability to prevent threats
Barry 13 (Tom, January 9, 2013, Director for the TransBorder project at the Center for International Policy in Wash. DC. “With the Resurrection of Immigration Reform We'll Hear a Lot About Securing Our Borders, But What Does It Really Mean?” http://www.alternet.org/immigration/resurrection-immigration-reform-well-hear-lot-about-securing-our-borders-what-does-it)
One likely reason the Border Patrol does not address its counterterrorism in any detail is that the agency’s
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mandate that the Border Patrol end what is, in effect, its strategic focus on the marijuana drug war.
Plan solves- eliminating border congestion and increasing efficiency at POEs is key to increasing security- increased staffing is critical
Christopher E. Wilson1 and Erik Lee2, 7-xx-2012, Associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars1, Associate Director at the North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS) at Arizona State University2, “Whole Nations Waiting,” http://www.siteselection.com/issues/2012/jul/us-mex-border.cfm
The integrated nature of the North American manufacturing sector
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to engage vigorously in binational dialogue and cooperation.
A terrorist attack causes extinction from retaliatory escalation
Schwartz-Morgan ‘1
Nicole. Asst Prof of Politics @ Royal Military College of Canada. “Wild Globalization and Terrorism” October 2001, www.wfs.org JVOSS
The terrorist act can reactivate atavistic defense mechanisms
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whether they be themselves merchants or terrorists.
And Independently, US border cooperation over infrastructure creates an effective response to a bio-terror attack – no impact defense
CSIS 4 (Center for Strategic and International Studies, “U.S.-Mexico Border Security and the Evolving Security Relationship,” CSIS Mexico Project, April, http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/0404_bordersecurity.pdf)
Before the September 11 and anthrax attacks in the United States in the fall of 2001,
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would have significant adverse effects on both the United States and Mexico.
Bioterrorism results in extinction
Sandberg et al 8 – Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. PhD in computation neuroscience, Stockholm—AND—Jason G. Matheny—PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins. special consultant to the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh—AND—Milan M. ?irkovi?—senior research associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade. Assistant professor of physics at the University of Novi Sad. (Anders, How can we reduce the risk of human extinction?, 9 September 2008, http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/how-can-we-reduce-the-risk-of-human-extinction)
The risks from anthropogenic hazards appear at present
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at a rate rivaling Moore's Law.
Solvency — 1AC
Contention III---Solvency
Plan solves- updating infrastructure and fully staffing POEs key to solving efficiency for crossings and trade
Lee and Wilson 12 — Erik Lee, Associate Director at the North American Center for Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, former assistant director at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California-San Diego, holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California-San Diego, and Christopher E. Wilson, Associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, previously served as a Mexico Analyst for the U.S. Military and as a researcher at American University’s Center for North American Studies, holds an M.A. in International Affairs from American University, 2012 (“The State of Trade, Competitiveness and Economic Wellbeing in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region,” Working Paper of the Border Research Partnership—comprised of Arizona State University’s North American Center for Transborder Studies, the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, and the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, June, Available Online at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/State_of_Border_Trade_Economy_0.pdf, Accessed 05-14-2013, p. 2-3)
Commerce between the United States and Mexico is one of the great
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potentially dangerous individuals and shipments.
A strong federal role is vital — ensures coordination, transportation planning, and cross-border management
Wilson and Lee 13 — Christopher E. Wilson, Associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He develops the Institute’s research and programming on regional economic integration and U.S.-Mexico border affairs. He is the author of Working Together: Economic Ties between the United States and Mexico (Wilson Center, 2011) and has coauthored op-ed columns for the Wall Street Journal and Dallas Morning News. Chris previously served as a Mexico Analyst for the U.S. Military and as a researcher for Dr. Robert Pastor at American University’s Center for North American Studies. In Mexico, he worked with the international trade consultancy IQOM, Inteligencia Comercial, and with American students studying regional political and social issues. Before joining the Wilson Center as Associate, Chris worked as a consultant with the Mexico Institute on U.S.-Mexico economic relations. He completed his M.A. in International Affairs at American University, focusing on U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-Mexico relations, and Erik Lee, Associate Director at the North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS) at Arizona State University. He is responsible for legislative research, policy analysis and coordination with numerous partners in the United States, Mexico and Canada on various collaborative initiatives related to trade, security and sustainability. He is the co-author of “Realizing the Full Value of our Crossborder Trade with Mexico” and “Realizing the Value of Tourism from Mexico to the United States” (2012). He serves on the international advisory board for the journal Latin American Policy and on the advisory board for the Morrison Institute’s Latino Public Policy Center. He is also a member of the international steering committee of the International Metropolis Project based at Carleton University. Mr. Lee was previously program officer for the Merage Foundation for the American Dream, assistant director at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego and assistant managing director at the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy at San Diego State University. Before completing his master’s degree in Latin American Studies at UCSD in 2000, Mr. Lee worked as a university administrator and instructor in Hermosillo, Sonora (Christopher E. Wilson, Erik Lee, The State of The Border Report: A Comprehensive Analysis of the U.S.-Mexico Border, “CHAPTER 2: THE STATE OF TRADE, COMPETITIVENESS AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING INTHE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER REGION”, May 2013, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/mexico_state_of_border.pdf, Accessed 07-19-2013 | AK)
Managing the U.S.-Mexico border is made particularly difficult by the
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To strengthen regional competitiveness and security, we need regional coordination.