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.
ALAN BERSINMigrants 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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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 results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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