The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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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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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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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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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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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 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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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