Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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 have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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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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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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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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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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