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 BERSINAnd they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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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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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 results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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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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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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