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.
ALAN BERSINEvery air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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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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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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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 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 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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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 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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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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