The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
ALAN BERSINUntil we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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