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.
ALAN BERSINAnd 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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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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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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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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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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 must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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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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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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