To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
ALAN BERSINThe idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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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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