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.
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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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 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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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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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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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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 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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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