For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
ALAN BERSINThe prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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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 idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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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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