There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
ALAN BERSINIf you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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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 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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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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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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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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