US Customs and Border Protection - Obama Presidency Oral History

...you, fairly early on, shifted over to Customs and Border Protection . Can you talk about what led to tha...

...have me nominated for the commissioner, CBP commissionership, but that she neede...

...get a good eighteen months heading up CBP . Could you talk to me about what you...

...issue in a new and innovative way. Customs and Border Protection , because of its border-managemen...

...and the birth of DHS in that context, Customs and Border Protection , Coast Guard, this new department wa...

...understood that; because when I left CBP , she did tack on to the title o...

...For the first time, you really saw CBP and ICE totally coordinated in dealin...

...really partnered on this, DHS, largely CBP . Chap Lawson was an MIT professo...

...as the director of policy at CBP . He was a Mexico expert. Working wit...

...shifting or reinvigorated mission of CBP to focus more on trade. What were th...

...and all of the sixty thousand people in CBP and then broader in the US governmen...

...That was completely counterintuitive in CBP , but now it's standard doctrine in th...

...This was largely something that CBP was not involved in, and the borde...

...were dealt with in places other than CBP . Our work in the office of policy wa...

...before becoming the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection . When he left that role at the end o...

...security enterprise. After all, Customs and Border Protection and DHS is responsible for borde...

...on the CDC and HHS. But in Ebola, Customs and Border Protection played an important role in terms o...

...part of this. Coordinating through CBP was a function that we did from th...

...than myself. But to the extent that CBP was able to channel and then monito...

...we had actually identified, at CBP , Abdulmutallab as a person o...

...into the operations of DHS and CBP in quite a remarkable way from tha...

...to understand that we needed to have CBP officers and ICE agents statione...

...visas, in the case of ICE agents, but CBP officers also to work with loca...

...okay, I would imagine, for the having CBP officers stationed abroad. What wer...

...Immigration Advisory Program stationing CBP officers in airports, the involvemen...

...on customs when people think about CBP . Can you talk about customs and th...

...I think, accomplishments of our team at CBP in 2010 when I became the commissioner...

...eleven that the trade side of the CBP function had—while it continued to be ...

...the counterterrorist roles of DHS and CBP . This was to the consternation o...

...Committee. So there was a demand that CBP pay renewed attention to its trad...

...importance of the trade functions of CBP . Providing resources to the Office o...

...entry that were run by the component at CBP called the Office of Field Operation...

...dimension of our responsibilities at CBP be taken into account. And that is ...

...say that everyone accepts the fact that CBP has to pay attention to the custom...

...transnational crimes when you were in CBP ? Only with respect to CBP operation...

...you were in CBP? Only with respect to CBP operations or other operations of DOJ...

...before becoming the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection . When he left that role at the end o...

...who had been the commissioner of CBP and then became the secretary o...

...immigration part of DHS around ICE and CBP . What are your thoughts on ho...

...missions of ICE and CBP . What we will see is an evolution...

...Coast Guard and, to a lesser extent, Customs and Border Protection . We saw the central role of DHS i...

...such as the deployment of ICE agents or CBP agents in Portland or the lack o...

...that would be interested in going to CBP ?” And [laughs] I raised my hand, “O...

...and got confirmed unanimously. Went to Customs and Border Protection . Sixty thousand employees all over th...

...And was hit with multiple issues. Customs and Border Protection had been under a lot of negativ...

...would continue on in the same way. And Customs and Border Protection offered this new challenge, and it als...

...dollars for eighty employees. I went to CBP with sixty thousand employees, and the...

...very difficult. Because I reorganized CBP , I knew where we wanted to go and ho...

...administration has treated not only CBP , but the Department of Homelan...

...but the funding actually didn't affect CBP much. The analogy that I give you i...

...So I would say that when it came to CBP , we were left pretty much unscathed b...

...understood the politics. But overall, CBP was left pretty much unscathed. Wit...