We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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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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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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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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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