To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
ALAN BERSINPeople 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 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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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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 idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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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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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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Mexico 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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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