The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
ALAN BERSINIn 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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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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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.
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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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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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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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 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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States.
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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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