The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
ALAN BERSINThe air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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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.
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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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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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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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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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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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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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