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 BERSINThis joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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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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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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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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 Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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