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.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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