The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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