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.
ALAN BERSINWalls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.
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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.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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