We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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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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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.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to 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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect 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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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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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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