Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in 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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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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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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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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 National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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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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