People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
ALAN BERSINThe Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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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 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 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 add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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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.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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 air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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 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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