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.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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 air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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