Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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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 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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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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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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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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 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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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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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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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