Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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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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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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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In 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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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