Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
ALAN BERSINWe must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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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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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 should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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