If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
ALAN BERSINMigrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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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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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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