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.
ALAN BERSINEvery 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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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 prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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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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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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