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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.

Alan Bersin

The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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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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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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