We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
ALAN BERSINThe 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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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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 nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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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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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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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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