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.
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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We 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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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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 air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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