The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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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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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our 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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As 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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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 Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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