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.
ALAN BERSINIn 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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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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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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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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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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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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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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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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