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.
ALAN BERSINAnd 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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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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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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 potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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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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