There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
ALAN BERSINMigration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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 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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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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