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.
ALAN BERSINMexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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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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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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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.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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