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.
ALAN BERSINMexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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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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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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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.
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