Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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 Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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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.
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