We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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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.
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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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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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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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