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.
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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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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.
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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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We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of 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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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