Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
ALAN BERSINDuring the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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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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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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 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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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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