Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
ALAN BERSINThe potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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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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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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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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