Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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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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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The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.
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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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The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.
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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 cry of “Make America Great Again” reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end.
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To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.
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Today, the number of migrants crossing is at a 30-year low. That’s because of years of bipartisan work on this issue.
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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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In the course of 25 years, we have developed a constructive relationship with Mexico that was nonexistent before.
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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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The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico’s southern border is crucial to our own border security.
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Twenty-nine US states depend on Mexico as their primary export market.
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And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.
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