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.
ALAN BERSINAnd 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 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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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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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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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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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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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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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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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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