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.
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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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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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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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