Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
ALAN BERSINThat’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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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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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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