Border security Quote by Alan Bersin

“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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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States…

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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative. More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering…

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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…

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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.

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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…

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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…

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If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.

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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…

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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…

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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

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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…

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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. The Mexicans return…

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