An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
ALAN BERSINThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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We 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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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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 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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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of 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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