Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
ALAN BERSINIn the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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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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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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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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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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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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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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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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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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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 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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