President Barack Obama’s vow to double US exports over the next five years would create more work for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the primary federal agency charged with protecting US intellectual property rights, ICE chief John Morton told HSToday.us.
In a speech before the Export-Import Bank of the United States on March 11, Obama promised to “double our exports, open up new markets, and level the playing field for American businesses and American workers.”
But as legitimate exports grow, so must the effort to guarantee the safety and security of those exports, acknowledged Morton, the assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in charge of ICE.
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