There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
ALAN BERSINThe image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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We must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.
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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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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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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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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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