potential and the power of north america, and north america, i submit both for economic competitive reasons as well as the security reasons will be the main point of reference for the next generation or two of americans. certainly the culture and demographic nature of our life here in the united states hinges remarkably as robert caplin points out with our relationships with mexico. what i'd like to do is leave that for the panel discussion and rather talk about security at the u.s.-mexican border, and i do so for the following reason. in order to harness economic power of north america, in order to make that north american experience work with canada and mexico, we are going to have to exert efforts that are massively bipartisan in nature, that require not only the cooperation