We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
ALAN BERSINThe Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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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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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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