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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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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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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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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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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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.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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