We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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 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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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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