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.
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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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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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.
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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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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.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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