The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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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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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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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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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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