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.
ALAN BERSINAs 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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in 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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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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