“The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.”

The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.

And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.

In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.

The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.

It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.

There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.

And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.

The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.

We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.

And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.

The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.

For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.

The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.

We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.

Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.

Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.

It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.

There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced

Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public

I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.