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.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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 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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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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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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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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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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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