Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
ALAN BERSINAnd 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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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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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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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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