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.
ALAN BERSINMigrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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