To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
ALAN BERSINWe make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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.
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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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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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 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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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