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.
ALAN BERSINThe air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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