We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
ALAN BERSINAnd they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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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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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.
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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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