That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
ALAN BERSINYou 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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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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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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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