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.
ALAN BERSINThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our 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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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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