Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
ALAN BERSINWe 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 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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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Migrants 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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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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