Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
ALAN BERSINThe Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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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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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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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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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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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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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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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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