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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.

Alan Bersin

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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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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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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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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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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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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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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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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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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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