The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
ALAN BERSINIf you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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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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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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 idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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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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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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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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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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