That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
ALAN BERSINMigration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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Trust 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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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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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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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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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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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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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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