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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.

Alan Bersin

It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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Country Gone Increasingly Migrant Own Receive Right Send
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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Barrier Cultural exchange Hoard Information Legal Notion Power Remember Restrict Share Something
Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.
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Homeland Inherently Security Today Transnational
More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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Country Deport Enter Illegal More Voluntary
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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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Acknowledge Alone Barrier Confirm Fact General Hear Homeland Insufficient Insure Secretary Security
The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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Air Bus Central Country Detain Migrant Return
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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Cash Country Criminal Include Institute Launder Organization Smuggling
People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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Call Economy Support Either Job Lost Out People Political Provide Responsive Society
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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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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Company Country Dollar Investment Involve Million Trade
Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Country Depenf Export Market Primary State
Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Alone Barrier Insufficient Insure Security Wall
An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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Asset Huge Joint Least Place Program Security Six Year

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