More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures.
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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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We can’t defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense.
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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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In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come 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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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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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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The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
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That’s the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.
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We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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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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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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Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.
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