Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
ALAN BERSINTwenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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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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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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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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Four 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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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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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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