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.
ALAN BERSINThat’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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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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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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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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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest 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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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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