We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world.
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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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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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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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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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 course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
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We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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