The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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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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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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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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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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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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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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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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