The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
ALAN BERSINYou 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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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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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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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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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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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