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Is there a Border “Crisis”? Status and Conditions of the U.S.-Mexico Border

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On Monday, April 11th, the Belfer Center’s Homeland Security Project will host Nate Bruggeman, former Counselor to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as part of its spring seminar series.

The event will consist of a seminar involving Bruggeman hosted by Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security and Faculty Director of the Homeland Security Project. The seminar will cover the status and conditions of the U.S. – Mexico border. 

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Nate Bruggeman

About

Currently the Executive Editor of the Homeland Security Project’s Homeland Security Paper Series, Nate Bruggeman previously served as Counselor to the Special Representative for Border Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. In that capacity, he advised senior departmental leadership on emerging border security and intelligence issues, and he developed innovative solutions to facilitate border security operations. He then moved to U.S. Customs and Border Protection as a Counselor to Commissioner. He advised the Commissioner and other agency leadership on policy and operational issues related to passenger screening, Southwest border security, and enhancing the agency’s intelligence function.

Bruggeman also has had a distinguished legal practice. After graduating with High Honors from The University of Texas School of Law, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Bruggeman has been an attorney at the international law firm WilmerHale and the boutique litigation firm Wheeler, Trigg, O’Donnell. Most recently, he was an Assistant Attorney General at the Colorado Department of Law. He graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College with an B.A. in Political Science.