For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
ALAN BERSINThe Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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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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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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