This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
ALAN BERSINMigration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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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.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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.
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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.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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