The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
ALAN BERSINAnd 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.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
-
-
In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
ALAN BERSIN -
The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
ALAN BERSIN -
The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
ALAN BERSIN -
We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
ALAN BERSIN -
This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
ALAN BERSIN -
We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
ALAN BERSIN -
There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
ALAN BERSIN -
And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
ALAN BERSIN -
We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
ALAN BERSIN -
Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN