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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.

Alan Bersin

The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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Bring Chaotic Idea Law Order Restore Rule Situation
Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
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Border Combine Country Depend Economy Four Job Largest Million Six State Trade World
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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Homeland Inherently Security Today Transnational
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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Relocate Administration Bush Central Change Country Department During Gave Health Human Law Minor Role Service
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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Border Country Familiar Know Live Most People Necessary Stretch
Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Country Depenf Export Market Primary State
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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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Apparent Chaotic Crime More Rate Result Situation
If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Build Confront Foot Ladder Son Wall
Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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Against Air Country Database Every Traveler Vetted
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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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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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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Call Economy Support Either Job Lost Out People Political Provide Responsive Society
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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.

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