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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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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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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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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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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 idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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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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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 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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