Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
ALAN BERSINHomeland 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.
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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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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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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 should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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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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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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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.
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