Caused this surge. I dont know. We should be asking that question. But where are the mexican officials on pursuing their southern border strategy, and how do you see that as a tactic to basically dispel this crisis . Thank you, senator. Mexican president nieto announced finally on monday this longawait the southern strategy his government had been working on for some time. We expect that it will allow the Mexican Government to improve its interdiction capabilities along the border, that theyre going to be dedicating more resources to disrupting some of the alien Smuggling Networks and the traditional routes they use up through grauatemala, through southern mexico. In addition, theyre trying to also implement better documentation of people who are crossing their border so that they can track them better in the country. Theres no question, it is a very big border with guatemala and belize. It is open in a lot of places. So they have quite a job in front of them. I would suggest that ther
Information. 14 and above, theyre all fingerprinted. Those fingerprints are run against the databases here in the United States. So that if it was somebody a little bit older that had been deported or had been arrested or was involved in a gang. We need better cooperation, better communication with those other three countries to make sure the vast majority of what were seeing are not in that threat category, but we have to be very careful. Well, as has been reported and i dont have any personal knowledge of this, that the number of drug seizures on the border since this crisis has decreased because resources have been deployed to deal with the emergency of this crisis. Is that correct . The number of drug seizures has decreased in that particular sector, but a couple things. Actually having watched it pretty carefully for the five years i served as the president s drug policy adviser, those numbers fluctuate a lot. Now that we have two state where is you can grow your own marijuana, im
We know with Central America, the difficulties they have down there with their economy and other challenges. As time goes on, youre going to see other parts of the world, for example, india, migration from india into the United States. And weve already seen spikes of that in the last few years. But the whole flow is changing. I just read yesterday where mexico has signed a 1 billion deal with bmw to build a factory down in mexico. The creation of more jobs in mexico and to the commissioners point, the economy is prospering there. It does come down to, i think, so much comes down to opportunity. And the folks that were encountering on the border, from guatemala, honduras, and el salvador, dont have that Economic Opportunity. Opportunit. Gangs, violence as well as Family Members here and thats whats driving it. Mr. Chairman, also i think you talk about whats working and the trade integration thats happened in north america between the United States remember canada and mexico has created
At flows. We know with Central America, the difficulties they have down there with their economy and other challenges. As time goes on, youre going to see other parts of the world, for example, india, migration from india into the United States. And weve already seen spikes of that in the last few years. But the whole flow is changing. I just read yesterday where mexico has signed a 1 billion deal with bmw to build a factory down in mexico. The creation of more jobs in mexico and to the commissioners point, the economy is prospering there. It does come down to, i think, so much comes down to opportunity. And the folks that were encountering on the border, from guatemala, honduras, and el salvador, dont have that Economic Opportunity. Opportunit. Gangs, violence as well as Family Members here and thats whats driving it. Mr. Chairman, also i think you talk about whats working and the trade integration thats happened in north america between the United States remember canada and mexico ha
Ruthy Heiler is a survivor of child sex abuse, featured in the documentary "Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals," which exposes an Independent Fundamental Baptist church.