We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
ALAN BERSINIt 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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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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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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And 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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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 is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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