And the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
ALAN BERSINUntil we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
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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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And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.
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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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Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world.
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The results became more and more apparent. Crime rates went down in the border region.
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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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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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This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
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The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous.
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And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum.
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Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive.
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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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We make things together. We have shared production platforms.
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For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world.
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