This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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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