More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
ALAN BERSINThe 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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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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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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 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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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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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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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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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And 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 Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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