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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.

Alan Bersin

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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Acknowledge Alone Barrier Confirm Fact General Hear Homeland Insufficient Insure Secretary Security
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.
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Arrive Assure Before Border Far Flow Security
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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Barrier Cultural exchange Hoard Information Legal Notion Power Remember Restrict Share Something
The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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Become Class Country Increase Middle People Society Sustain
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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Homeland Inherently Security Today Transnational
And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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Asylum Border Customer Political Protection Surrender
The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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Apparent Chaotic Crime More Rate Result Situation
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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Country Enter Generation Large Level Lowest Migrant Now Number
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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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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Administration Apparently Border Examine Platform Process Seek
Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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Against Air Country Database Every Traveler Vetted
Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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Basis Continental Global Look Our Security World
The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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Country Enormous Potential
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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Built Confront Former Homeland Ladder Out Point Security Soon Wall
Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
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Border Combine Country Depend Economy Four Job Largest Million Six State Trade World
We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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