Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
ALAN BERSINAn increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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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.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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