An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
ALAN BERSINWe should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
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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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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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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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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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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 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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