In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.
ALAN BERSINIn 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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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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More Mexicans are leaving through deportation and voluntary return than are entering the United States legally and illegally.
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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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In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.
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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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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.
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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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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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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
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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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