The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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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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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect 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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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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 can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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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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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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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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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