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.
ALAN BERSINThere are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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 National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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 prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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