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.
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.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
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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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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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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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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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