More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
ALAN BERSINThe 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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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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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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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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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 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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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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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 must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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