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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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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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 results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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