In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
ALAN BERSINMigrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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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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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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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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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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