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.
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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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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Trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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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The prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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