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Ben Rohrbaugh
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Ben Rohrbaugh

Ben Rohrbaugh has been at the forefront of border and supply chain security and advancing U.S.-Mexico relations for over a decade. Rohrbaugh held senior policy positions at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and he was a Director on the White House’s National Security Council, where he developed policy on border and supply chain security issues. Rohrbaugh is a Fellow at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas-Austin, and he is the author of More or Less Afraid of Nearly Everything: Homeland Security, Borders, and Disasters in the Twenty-First Century.

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Reports
January 2024
Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Challenge Decades in the Making
By  Alan D. Bersin, Nate Bruggeman and Ben Rohrbaugh

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Reports
January 2024

Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Challenge Decades in the Making

Unauthorized migration at the U.S.-Mexico border has been a high-profile and politically divisive issue for decades. But as the nature of migration at the border has changed profoundly, U.S. policy responses have struggled to keep up. This report explores the changing nature of migration flows and migration policy at the border from the early 1990s until today, highlighting key lessons for contemporary policy-making.