Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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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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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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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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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
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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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