Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
ALAN BERSINHomeland 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 they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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