Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
ALAN BERSINTrust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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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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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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