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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.

Alan Bersin

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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Advance Build Enormous List Procedure Robust Since Target Watch
The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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Country Energy Geopolitical Independence Prospect Reach
The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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Border Country Custom National Protection Run Seek Target Virginia
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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Accept Cost Country Date Great Image People Something Wall
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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Borderline Cause Country Defend Defense First Generate Happen Homeland Line Look Rather
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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Border Country Familiar Know Live Most People Necessary Stretch
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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Actual Border Come Evade Left Longer Migrant Patrol Seek Smuggler Up
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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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Country Migrant Negative Net People Remember
In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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Before Constructive Country Course Develop Five Nonexistent Relationship Twenty Year
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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Cash Country Criminal Include Institute Launder Organization Smuggling
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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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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Country Enter Generation Large Level Lowest Migrant Now Number
Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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Administration Apparently Border Examine Platform Process Seek
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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Call Economy Support Either Job Lost Out People Political Provide Responsive Society
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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