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.
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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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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Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest 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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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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