Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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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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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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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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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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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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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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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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