Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
ALAN BERSINMexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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The 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 have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.
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The cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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