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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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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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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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 must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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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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