This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.
ALAN BERSINIn the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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 the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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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.
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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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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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Not 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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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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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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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.
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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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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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