Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
ALAN BERSINThe Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
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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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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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