“The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.”

More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.

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.

Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.

We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange.

In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.

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.

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.

People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.

Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.

Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.

We do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada.

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.

To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.

An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.

The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.

But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

I’m enjoying where I’m at in my life and I feel like I’m learning a lot on a daily basis.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.

I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis.

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis.

It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.