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.
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.
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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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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.
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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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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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.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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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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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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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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