Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
ALAN BERSINThe potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to 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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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 make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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 Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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.
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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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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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