This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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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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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of 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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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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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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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 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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