The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
ALAN BERSINThe air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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