In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
ALAN BERSINAn increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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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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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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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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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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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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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