The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
ALAN BERSINOur security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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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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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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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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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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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