An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
ALAN BERSINFour 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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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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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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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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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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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