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 BERSINWalls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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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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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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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 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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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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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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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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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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