We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
ALAN BERSINEvery air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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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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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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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.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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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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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.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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