“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.”

Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.

We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.

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.

This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.

Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.

Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.

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.

And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.

To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.

That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.

The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.

And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.

In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.

The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.

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.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world’s community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.