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.
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 results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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