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.
ALAN BERSINPeople 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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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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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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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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 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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