The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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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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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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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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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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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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 have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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The 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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