We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
ALAN BERSINMexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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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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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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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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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.
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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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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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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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