Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
ALAN BERSINEvery air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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The 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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to 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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During 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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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 make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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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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