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.
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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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