Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.
ALAN BERSINThe prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States.
More Alan Bersin Quotes
-
-
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
In today’s digital online world, those who don’t share information will be isolated and left behind.
ALAN BERSIN -
In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
ALAN BERSIN -
Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
ALAN BERSIN -
People in our so-called Rust Belt have lost out, and politics and society have not been responsive either in providing the kind of additional support they need or to retrain them for jobs that are being created in the new economy.
ALAN BERSIN -
We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
ALAN BERSIN -
Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers.
ALAN BERSIN -
Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
ALAN BERSIN -
The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
ALAN BERSIN -
This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
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.
ALAN BERSIN -
Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.
ALAN BERSIN






