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.
ALAN BERSINMexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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 idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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.
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