Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
ALAN BERSINFor the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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 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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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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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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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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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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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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