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.
ALAN BERSINWe have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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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 to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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 Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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 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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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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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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