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.
ALAN BERSINThe Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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 have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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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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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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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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 potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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