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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.

Alan Bersin

Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
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Border Combine Country Depend Economy Four Job Largest Million Six State Trade World
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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Defense Equipment Generation Impact Patrol Positive Sophisticate Strategy Surveillance
This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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Asset Huge Joint Least Place Program Security Six Year
In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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Benefit Country Economic Environment Government Large Peaceful Period Policy
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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Country Enter Generation Large Level Lowest Migrant Now Number
Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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Administration Apparently Border Examine Platform Process Seek
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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Cooperative Demilitarize Friendly Generation Genuine Last Most Move Past Relationship Surface While
In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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Another Come Country Detain Last Migrant Nearby Thousand Two Year
As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Built Confront Former Homeland Ladder Out Point Security Soon Wall
Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Alone Barrier Insufficient Insure Security Wall
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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Cash Country Criminal Include Institute Launder Organization Smuggling
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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Homeland Inherently Security Today Transnational
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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Actual Border Come Evade Left Longer Migrant Patrol Seek Smuggler Up
There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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Airport Country Immigration Officer Official Plainclothes Protect
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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Arrive Assure Before Border Far Flow Security
Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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Accordance Lawful Migration Place Procedure Safe Secure

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