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.
ALAN BERSINThe 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 potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
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Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
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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 air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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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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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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