This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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 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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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 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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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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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