Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
ALAN BERSINThe Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in 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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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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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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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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