And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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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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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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 idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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 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 have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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