Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
ALAN BERSINThe air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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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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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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