This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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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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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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And 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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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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 idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in 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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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.
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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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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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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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