Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
ALAN BERSINTo add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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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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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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 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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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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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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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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