There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
ALAN BERSINIt has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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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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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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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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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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