The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
ALAN BERSINMore Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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.
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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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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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 potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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