The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
ALAN BERSINThe idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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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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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 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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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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