Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
ALAN BERSINSix 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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Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There’s hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn’t have a cause or effect that’s generated abroad. Increasingly.
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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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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.
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People should remember that Mexican migration is now at a net negative.
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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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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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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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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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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant 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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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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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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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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