This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
ALAN BERSINThe idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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 air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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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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