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.
ALAN BERSINFour out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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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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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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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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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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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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 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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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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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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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