Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
ALAN BERSINAnd they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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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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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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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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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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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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