There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
ALAN BERSINTo add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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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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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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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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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.
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