We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.
ALAN BERSINThe 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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We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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