We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada.
ALAN BERSINNot 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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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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The 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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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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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It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transit country, and increasingly a receiving country for migrants in its own right.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.
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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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The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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