The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
ALAN BERSINFour out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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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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