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 BERSINThe results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We 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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.
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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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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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