Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
ALAN BERSINToday, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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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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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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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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter 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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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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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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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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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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In 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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