===Contention 1: The Southwest Border===

Non-state actors are attempting to exploit weaknesses at the border to conduct operations in the US
**McCaul 12 **(MICHAEL T. McCAUL CHAIRMAN UNITED STATES HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, INVESTIGATIONS, AND MANAGEMENT [[http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/11-15-12-Line-in-theSand.pdf-http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/11-15-12-Line-in-the-Sand.pdf]] November 2012 "A LINE IN THE SAND: COUNTERING CRIME, VIOLENCE AND TERROR AT THE SOUTHWEST BORDER") Terrorism remains a serious threat to the security of the United States. The AND or its agents would attempt to exploit the porous Southwest border for retaliation.

Weaknesses at the US-Mexican border are a unique threat

Gray 12 (Dawn L. Bartell Norwich University Masters of Diplomacy David H. Gray Campbell University
[[http://globalsecuritystudies.com/Bartell%20Hezbollah%20and%20Al%20Shabaab%20in%20Mexico.pdf-http://globalsecuritystudies.com/Bartell Hezbollah and Al Shabaab in Mexico.pdf]] Fall 2012 "Hezbollah and Al Shabaab in Mexico and the Terrorist Threat to the United States") The inability of Mexico to secure its sovereign territories and border areas has contributed to AND , the United States, or any other state in the international community.

Attack is impending-neg evidence underestimates their capability

Kanani 11 (Rahim Kanani, founder and editor-in-chief of World Affairs Commentary, Citing Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow, Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, former Director of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy, former Chief of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, Counter-terrorist Center, Central Intelligence Agency, recipient of the CIA Director~s Award, graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, June 29th, "New al-Qaeda Chief Zawahiri Has Strong Nuclear Intent", Forbes, http://blogs.forbes.com/rahimkanani/2011/06/29/new-al-qaeda-chief-zawahiri-has-strong-nuclear-intent/) We should be especially worried about the threat of nuclear terrorism under Zawahiri~s lead ership. AND what terrorists remain capable of accomplishing when they put their minds to it."

Insurgent attacks causes miscalc great power wars

Ayson 10 (Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University
of Wellington, "After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects," Studies in Conflict %26 Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld) Washington~s early response to a terrorist nuclear attack on its own soil might also raise AND be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.

Attack destroys the world economy and causes retaliation leading to global war
Diamond 8(John Diamond fellow of the Saga Foundation,, , [[http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/10/a-financialThe aftershocks As the Saga Foundation a non-profit organization focused on the AND our world as well as transform it and not for the better.

apo.html 10/9/08-http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/10/a-financial-apo.html 10/9/08]] "A financial apocalypse isn~t nearly as scary as a nuclear one,")

Efficient trade key to agriculture and food security

CoC 12 (United States Chamber of Commerce, "ENHANCING THE U.S.MEXICO
ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP" <http://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/reports/1204EnhancingtheUS-MexicoEconomicPartnership.pdf> 4-24-12)

In both markets, consumers and producers alike benefit from access to the other~s agricultura l AND reliable access to safe food at better prices, quality, and reliability.

Reduces the likelihood of GMO use

Daily Yonder 8 ~~[The Daily Yonder, The Daily Yonder~s special reports also bring you overviews of the big issues now facing small
communities health, employment, broadband access, education, and economic development. We~re tracking how national policies are reaching (or ignoring) rural communities. The Daily Yonder has been published on the web since 2007 by the Center for Rural Strategies, a non-profit media organization based in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and Knoxville, Tennessee. The site was developed with the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Media Democracy Fund (a project of the Proteus Fund)., "Will Genetically Modified Crops End Food Crisis?," Daily Yonder, 4/25, http://www.dailyyonder.com/will-genetically-modified-crops-end-food-crisis~~]

The worldwide food shortage and the rising cost of food are

g enetically

leading those who were reluctant to use or plant m odified crops to change their minds, according to a front page story in The New York Times. "Soaring

food prices and global grain shortages are bringing pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops," reports Times reporter Andrew Pollack.

GMOs cause superweeds that wipe out plant species ag collapse

Lean 2 ~~[Geoffrey Lean. Environment Editor, Independent, The (London), "GM crops bound to `escape~, says EU", Mar 24, 2002, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020324/ai_n12597023~~]
Genes will inevitably escape from genetically modified crops, contaminating organic farms, creating superweeds AND the interbreeding could lead to natural wild relatives of the crops becoming extinct.

Loss of biodiversity leads to extinction

Benson 95 ~~[Robert, Loyola Prof of Law, "GETTING BUSINESS OFF THE PUBLIC DOLE:" August 1995
http://heed.home.igc.org/publications/dole.html~~] Whole ecosystemswetlands, forests, mountains and desertsthat since ancient times AND . This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

ACE solves border trade and security

Bradley 12 (Melissa Bradley, writer for Trade Tech Inc, "Trade Tech Customers Take Advantage of Early Automated Commercial
Environment (ACE) Approval" <https://www.tradetech.net/index.php/about-us/news-detail/trade-tech-customers-take-advantage-of-earlyautomated-commercial-environme> 8-14-12) The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is a system being developed by U. AND lower cost will have positive impacts on the U.S. economy.

===1AC - Plan===

Thus the plan, the United States Federal Government should fully fund and implement the Automated Commercial Environment land port modernization program along the United States-Mxico border.
===Contention 2: Supply Chains===

Aerospace growth and competitiveness declining now stronger supply chains key
Bernardini and Fitzpatrick 13 (Eric Bernardini and David Fitzpatrick, managing directors for AlixPartners, "Pockets of
Turbulence" <http://www.alixpartners.com/en/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=wi4rab_uA84%3d%26tabid=2085> June 2013) The airline sector reflects the current good-news/bad-news state of AND model for which neither side is yet mature enough to implement and monitor.

US aerospace competitiveness key to air power

Watkins 6 (Todd, PhD-Harvard and director-Lehigh University~s Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation, with ALAN
SCHRIESHEIM and STEPHEN MERRILL, Glide Path to Irrelevance: Federal Funding for Aeronautics, http://www.issues.org/23.1/watkins.html) World leadership in air transportation and aircraft manufacturing is widely viewed as a cornerstone of AND in this sector, let alone international leadership, is to be ensured.

Air power key to US-Asia alliances and effective Asia pivot Lowther 11 Dr. Adam B. Lowther is a member of the faculty at the U.S Air Force~s Air University. November 22nd, 2011, "Why U.S. Needs
Airpower Diplomacy," thediplomat.com/2011/11/22/why-u-s-needs-airpower-diplomacy/?all=true What makes affording a shift to the region particularly difficult is the fact that the

AND sensitive, and responsive to the requirements of a complex and changing region.

Effective Asia pivot solves multiple scenarios for nuclear war

Colby 11 Elbridge Colby, research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, served as policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense~s
Representative to the New START talks, expert advisor to the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, August 10, 2011, "Why the U.S. Needs its Liberal Empire," The Diplomat, online: http://the-diplomat.com/2011/08/10/why-us-needs-its-liberal-empire/2/?print=yes But the pendulum shouldn~t be allowed to swing to o far toward an incautious retrenchment. AND The ability and will to intervene is too important to be so wasted.

The Asia pivot protects straits of Malacca-key to Asian trade

Kaplan 11 Robert D. Kaplan 11 is senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, national correspondent for the Atlantic, and a
member of the U.S. Defense Department~s Defense Policy Board, September/October 2011, "The South China Sea Is the Future of Conflict," online: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/15/the_south_china_sea_is_the_future_of_conflict?print=yes%26hidecomments=yes%26page=full The South China Sea joins the Southeast Asian states with the Western Pacific, functioning AND Taiwan one, Vietnam 25, the Philippines eight, and Malaysia five.

Collapse of Asian trade causes US draw-in and nuclear war

Auslin 9 Michael Auslin 9, resident scholar at AEI, "Averting Disaster", The Daily Standard, 2/6,
http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.29339/pub_detail.asp As they deal with a collapsing world economy, policymakers in Washington and around the AND types of miscalculation and greed that have destroyed international systems in the past.

Plan key to aerospace sector

CoC 11 (United States Chamber of Commerce, "Steps to a 21st Century: U.S.-Mexico Border"
<http://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/reports/2011_us_mexico_report.pdf> 11-30-11) Much discussion takes place today about the ability of U.S. companies to AND , inventory is not an option. Trade facilitation is the only solution.

Trade efficiency especially key to UAS

AIA 13 ~~[Aerospace Industries Association, The Aerospace Industries Association represents the nation~s leading manufacturers and suppliers
of civil, military, and business aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aircraft systems, space systems, aircraft engines, missiles, materiel and related components, equipment, services and information technology., "Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Perceptions %26 Potential,"~~]

As U. S. defense budgets decline, maintaining a strong U. S. aerospace industry will increasingly depend on an effective export strategy for technologies where the United States is a global leader. There is no better example than UAS. According to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, approximately 556 models of unmanned systems are produced worldwide by 195 companies.21

UAVs key to ISRsolves crisis management

Trefz 3 John L, Jr., LCDR, US Navy, From Persistent ISR to Precision Strikes: The Expanding Role of UAVs,
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a420264.pdf "Operational intelligence is directed at collection, analysis, and evaluation of information dealing AND but their loss would be more acceptable than that of a manned aircraft.

That prevents nuke war over Taiwan

Lieber 7 - Keir A. Lieber, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and Daryl G. Press, Associate Professor of
Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Winter 2007, "U.S. Nuclear Primacy and the Future of the Chinese Deterrent," China Security, Issue No. 5, online: http://www.wsichina.org/cs5_5.pdf He notes that if China were to alert its strategic nuclear forces during a war AND its nuclear force or even attacking Taiwan in the first place.

War over Taiwan inevitable - U.S. superiority causing China escalation now
Zhang 8 - Baohui Zhang, Associate Professor of Political Science, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, March 2008, "The Taiwan Strait and the
Future of China~s No-First-Use Nuclear Policy," Comparative Strategy, Vol. 27, No. 2, p. 164-182 In fact, the Chinese military was awed by the American dominance in conventional warfare AND develop a nuclear doctrine "suitable for economically and technologically weak states."22

Taiwan escalates and goes nuclear - no defense

Lowther 13 ~~[William Lowther, Taipei Times, citing a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 3/16/13, "Taiwan could
spark nuclear war: report," [[http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/03/16/2003557211http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/03/16/2003557211]]~~] Taiwan is the most likely potential crisis that could trigger a nuclear war between China AND arsenals, such a conflict would be tremendously dangerous and quite possibly devastating."

UAS will monitor agriculture and energy infrastructure against attacks an attack would collapse the entire industry
Darnall 11 ~~[Bart Darnall, "Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Logical Choice for Homeland Security Support", Naval Postgraduate School
thesis, Dec. 2011, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2%26doc=GetTRDoc.pdf%26AD=ADA556271~~] Agriculture and food infrastructure comprises of production, processing, and delivery systems. A AND dusting greatly reduces the exposure of people to hazards associated with chemical contamination.

Leads to resource wars and extinction

Lugar 4 (Richard G., U.S. Senator Indiana and Former Chair Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "Plant Power", Our
Planet, 14(3), http://www.unep.org/ourplanet/imgversn/143/lugar.html)
In a world confronted by global terrorism, turmoil in the Middle East, burgeoning AND The long-term environmental consequences could be disastrous for the entire globe. ===Contention 3: Solvency===

ACE underfunded - plan speeds up the project no disads

CoC 11 ("Steps to a 21st Century: U.S.-Mexico Border," A U.S. Chamber of Commerce Border
Report, [[http://www.uschambe r.com/sites/default/file s/rep orts/ 20 11_us_ mexic o_rep ort.pdf-http://www.uschambe r.com/sites/default/files/ report s/2011_us_mex ico_ rep ort.pdf]])

Another area of concern is the lack of progress related to, and budget cuts AND decreases costs for businesses and provides governments with more accurate and accessible information.