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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.

Alan Bersin

The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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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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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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.
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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.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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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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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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