And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
ALAN BERSINIt 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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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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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 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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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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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