I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
ALAN BERSINThis is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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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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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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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