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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.

Alan Bersin

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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Accomplish Country Economic Emerge Massive Recognize Unilaterally
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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Border Extent Mean President Security Strengthened
Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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Country Economy Largets Thirteen World
I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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Area Barrie Border Certain Effect Fence Important Manageability Question Think Urban Wall
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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Country Gone Increasingly Migrant Own Receive Right Send
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
There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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Advance Build Enormous List Procedure Robust Since Target Watch
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
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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Attemptm Come Between Country Labor Legitimate Market People Until Work
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
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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Border Country Familiar Know Live Most People Necessary Stretch
More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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Country Deport Enter Illegal More Voluntary
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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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
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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Company Country Dollar Investment Involve Million Trade
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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Border Control Country Crucial Done Migrant Own Security Southern Term Work

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