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.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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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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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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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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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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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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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 have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of 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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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