People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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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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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 potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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