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.
ALAN BERSINMore Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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