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.
ALAN BERSINWe assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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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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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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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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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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