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.
ALAN BERSINAnd 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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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 the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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 prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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We 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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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