There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
ALAN BERSINWe have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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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.
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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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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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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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