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.
ALAN BERSINThe results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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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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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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 need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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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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