Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy Kathleen Martinez and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner David V. Aguilar signed an alliance agreement that supports President Obama's executive order to hire more disabled people by federal agencies.

"Today's alliance is an opportunity for ODEP and CBP to demonstrate disability employment practices that will not only result in increased hires at CBP but easily can be replicated by other federal agencies seeking to fulfill the requirements of their executive order plans," Martinez says.

The Labor Department's Office of Disability Employment Policy's Alliance Initiative, which first started in 2006, helps organizations that strive to better disability workplace practices to work with ODEP to create and execute model policies and initiatives that increase recruiting, hiring, advancing and retaining employees with disabilities. ODEP and CBP will join to encourage effective strategies and practices.