We need to realize that the economic situation between Mexico and the United States is not just one in which we trade with one another.
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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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.
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But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.
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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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If you build a 50-foot wall, you’ll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.
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I think there’s no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border.
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