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Alan Bersin

And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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Band Big Border Country Detect Open Passable Place Terrain
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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Arrive Assure Before Border Far Flow Security
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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Cooperative Demilitarize Friendly Generation Genuine Last Most Move Past Relationship Surface While
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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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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Abandoned Built Confidence Consequence Consideration Country Great Potential Something Trust
Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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Country Enter Generation Large Level Lowest Migrant Now Number
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 idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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Bring Chaotic Idea Law Order Restore Rule Situation
Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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Border Country Familiar Know Live Most People Necessary Stretch
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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Defense Equipment Generation Impact Patrol Positive Sophisticate Strategy Surveillance
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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Attitude Built Century Characterized Country Difficulty Nationalism Occur Overcome Protectionism Revolution
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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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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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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Asylum Border Customer Political Protection Surrender
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 Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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