Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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 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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