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.
ALAN BERSINThe idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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 potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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