And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
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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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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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 have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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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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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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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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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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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Four 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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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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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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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