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.
ALAN BERSINWe have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
-
-
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
ALAN BERSIN -
The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
ALAN BERSIN -
Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
ALAN BERSIN -
An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
ALAN BERSIN -
Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
ALAN BERSIN