For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
ALAN BERSINThis is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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 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 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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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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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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