This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
ALAN BERSINThe 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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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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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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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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