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.
ALAN BERSINI think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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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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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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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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