The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
ALAN BERSINWe must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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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 potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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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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