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.
ALAN BERSINMexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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