The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
ALAN BERSINTwenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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 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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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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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 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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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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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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