Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
ALAN BERSINWe 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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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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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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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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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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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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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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