As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
ALAN BERSINBut 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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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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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 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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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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