Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
ALAN BERSINFor the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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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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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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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 course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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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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