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.
ALAN BERSINWe have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities.
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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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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 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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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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There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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