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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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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