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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.

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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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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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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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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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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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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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of 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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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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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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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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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.

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