Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
ALAN BERSINIf you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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