Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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