Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
ALAN BERSINToday, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I 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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our 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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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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