Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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 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.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs 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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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