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 BERSINThere are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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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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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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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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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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