In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
ALAN BERSINThe law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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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 can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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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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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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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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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 prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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