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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. 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.

  Alan Bersin

  Wall, Strategy, Sophisticated

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• I think there's no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border. 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 Bersin

  Wall, Thinking, Important

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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. Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.

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  Country, Home, Texas

  Source: www.salon.com

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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. 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.

  Alan Bersin

  Order, America, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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• To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally. Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.

  Alan Bersin

  Mean, Law, Ideas

  Source: www.salon.com

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

  Alan Bersin

  Wall, Feet, Ladders

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• The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation. The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region. Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That's because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.

  Alan Bersin

  Today, Crime, Situation

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• In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before. During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.

  Alan Bersin

  Safety, Effort, Safety And Security

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• Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

  Alan Bersin

  Wall, Barriers, Security

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• Indeed, many of the illegal crossers who have entered the country in the last two years after being detained have actually been either unaccompanied minors or families who request political asylum. The ability of the smugglers to attract large numbers of families and unaccompanied minors is a function of the inability of our immigration court system to process asylum claims in a timely fashion.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Fashion, Political

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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.

  Alan Bersin

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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 the United States legally and illegally.

  Alan Bersin

  People, Mexican, Leaving

  Source: www.salon.com

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