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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.

Alan Bersin

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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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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Call Economy Support Either Job Lost Out People Political Provide Responsive Society
Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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Against Air Country Database Every Traveler Vetted
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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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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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 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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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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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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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