We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
ALAN BERSINNot 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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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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