People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
ALAN BERSINIn the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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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 Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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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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Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.
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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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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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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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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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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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