More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
ALAN BERSINThe 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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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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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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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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And 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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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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 last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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