Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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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 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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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 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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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 must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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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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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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