If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
ALAN BERSINWe have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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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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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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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter 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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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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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 do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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