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.
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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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 have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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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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