This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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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 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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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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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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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