More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
ALAN BERSINThe work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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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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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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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 National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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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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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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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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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