Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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