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.
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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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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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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 course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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