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.
ALAN BERSINThe 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 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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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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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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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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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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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