Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
ALAN BERSINMore Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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