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 BERSINIn today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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