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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.

Alan Bersin

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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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 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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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.
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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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Today, 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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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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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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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.
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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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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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