We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
ALAN BERSINTo add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of 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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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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