In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
ALAN BERSINWe have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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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 secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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