Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
ALAN BERSINIf you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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 the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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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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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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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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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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