Special Guests
Jimmy and Julie Apodaca
Retired El Paso County Sheriff
The Colombianization of Mexico;
What That Means for the United States
Rusty Fleming, Producer, Drug Wars movie
Author, Narco-Warfare in the 21st Century
Border Panel facilitated by Rusty Fleming
Threats to National Security
Street Gangs for Dummies
Two Thousand Miles of Border Security
Technology: Border Security in the 21st Century
Blue Servo Camera Technology
Border FENCE - The New F Word
Border Incursions
Disappeared: The Kidnapping Epidemic
The Evolution of Illegal Immigration & Human Smuggling
Border movie, produced by Chris Burgard
Human Trafficking
Seeking Asylum:Mexican Journalists
Panelists
Fred Burton, Vice President
Stratfor Institute, Austin, TX
Former member, Diplomatic Security Service Counter Terrorism Division
Richard Valdemar
International expert on gang warfare
Sheriff Sigi Gonzalez, President
Southwest Border Sheriffs Coalition
Don Reay, Executive Director
Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition
Philip Midkiff
Blue Servo
Sheriff Arvin West, President
Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition
William Slemaker, Founder
Laredo's Missing
David Cuthbertson, Special Agent in Charge
FBI, El Paso Division
Carlos Spector, Attorney
Juarez Femicides
The Pact
Diana Washington Valdez,
Award Winning Investigative Journalist and Author,
The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women
Mexican Roulette: Last Cartel Standing
Border Echoes
Documentary by Lorena Mendez-Quiroga
Senorita Extraviada
Documentary by Lourdes Portillo
Cartels and Mexico's Occult Worship
Robert Almonte, Executive Director
Texas Narcotic Officers Association
Author and Producer, Patron Saints of the Mexican Drug Underworld
Mending Spiritual Fences
International Breaches
A River Runs Through It:
International Crisis Created By Mexico Water Debt
Arturo Duran, Former Commissioner
International Boundary and Water Commission
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Chamizal Border Dispute
Pancho Villa's Historic Incursion Into the United States
Mexico's "Spanish Inquisition"
The Reconquista Movement
Leon Metz, Historian
Author of 19 books dealing with the American West, including
Border: The U.S. Mexico Line
Currently completing a history of the early Mexican Revolution
Past president of Western Writers of America