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.
ALAN BERSINWe make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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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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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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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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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 assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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