We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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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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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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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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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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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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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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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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