The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
ALAN BERSINWe make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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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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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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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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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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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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 the United States.
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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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 the violence there.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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