That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
ALAN BERSINMexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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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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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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