Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
ALAN BERSINWe have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
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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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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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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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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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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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 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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 Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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