The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
ALAN BERSINAnd we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant 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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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