The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
ALAN BERSINHomeland 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.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
-
-
The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
ALAN BERSIN -
In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
ALAN BERSIN -
The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
ALAN BERSIN -
The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
ALAN BERSIN -
Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
ALAN BERSIN -
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 -
We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
ALAN BERSIN