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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.

Alan Bersin

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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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.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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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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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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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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It 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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