The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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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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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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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect 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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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Migrants 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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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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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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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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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