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.
ALAN BERSINMexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant 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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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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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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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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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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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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