In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
ALAN BERSINIf you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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 the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect 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 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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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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Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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