I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
ALAN BERSINThe Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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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 today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs 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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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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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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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