More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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 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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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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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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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