Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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 add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American.
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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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 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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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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.
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The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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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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