We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
ALAN BERSINThe idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to 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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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