To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
ALAN BERSINThere 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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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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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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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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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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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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