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.
ALAN BERSINI 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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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 make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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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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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