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.
ALAN BERSINPeople should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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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 potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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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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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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