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.
ALAN BERSIN
The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
-
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
ALAN BERSIN -
And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
-
In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
ALAN BERSIN -
In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
ALAN BERSIN -
Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
ALAN BERSIN -
We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
ALAN BERSIN -
People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
ALAN BERSIN