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.
ALAN BERSINThis is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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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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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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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