Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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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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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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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 make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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 prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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 do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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