For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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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An increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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During the last eight to 10 years there have been continued efforts which have resulted in a strategic alliance with the Mexicans and improved safety and security at the border.
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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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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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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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To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally.
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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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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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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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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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