For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
ALAN BERSINThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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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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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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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.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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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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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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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