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.
ALAN BERSINEvery air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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 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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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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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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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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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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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