The Border Trade Alliance is pleased to announce that Pete Sepulveda has been appointed as the organization’s next chairman. Sepulveda is county administrator for Cameron County, Texas and the executive director of the Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority.
The Border Trade Alliance filed comments on Nov. 4, 2024 with the General Service Administration opposing the agency’s recommendation that commercial truck traffic should be removed from the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso.
The Border Trade Alliance appointed two new board members at its summer 2024 board meeting this week in Washington, D.C.
Border Trade Alliance President Britton Mullen issued this statement about the Biden administration Executive Order issued on June 4, 2024 on asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. “As we anticipate the implementation of this Executive Order, we reiterate a point we’ve made several times to the administration: No action should result in the closure of legal ports of entry and the prevention of the timely crossing of shipments between Mexico and the U.S. Doing so will cause costs to spike, put upward pressure on consumer prices, and undermine our region’s competitive standing.”
PRESS RELEASE: A large coalition of private and public stakeholders in the United States and Mexico led by the Border Trade Alliance, the Texas Association of Business, and CONCAMIN on Wednesday sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador urging the two presidents to work swiftly to improve the security situation along the U.S.-Mexico border.
A large coalition of private and public stakeholders in the United States and Mexico led by the Border Trade Alliance, the Texas Association of Business, and CONCAMIN on May 8, 2024 sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador urging the two presidents to work swiftly to improve the security situation along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The BTA strongly supports a multi-modal trade environment, so we are alarmed at delays of northbound trains originating in Mexico that have been boarded by migrants.
The Border Trade Alliance sent this letter to the […]
The Border Trade Alliance supports H.R. 5840, the Transportation Security Modernization Act. On Apr. 2, 2024, the BTA sent this letter to the chairman and ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee urging a markup of the bill.
The BTA on Feb. 29, 2024 issued this statement about President Biden and former President Trump's visit to the Texas-Mexico border.