Olivarri, Jason P.
La Prensa de San Antonio
03-05-2006
Homeland Security Secretary of Defense Michael Chertoff addressed a packed
room of business leaders and city dignitaries about the cooperation needed
on both sides of the border in order to deter border violence, illegal
immigration needs and increase free trade between the United States and
Central and South America.
"We have to regain control of the border and we cannot continue to have an
environment in which border violence flourishes," he said..
As a first step in this direction, Chertoff plans on meeting with Mexican
cabinet members in Brownsville this weekend and "cementing the next level
of a relationship of cooperation in which both ...